56 Changing the Sides value to 48 adds more detail to the lathed curve.
13. Press the spacebar to turn off the Lathe tool. Use the Change Surfaces panel
(press q) to give it the surface name Bowl (how original!) and then save the
object. Figure 8.57 shows the final bowl.
Figure 8.57 The final fruit bowl, before it??™s filled up with tasty treats.
14. Save your bowl (press s).
Now that you??™ve seen how the Lathe tool works, can you see why was it important
to use the Set Value dialog box to set those two endpoints? We lathed around the
Y-axis, and setting the X-values of the endpoints to 0 ensured that they??™d lie on
that axis, at the bowl??™s exact center. Positive X-values for the endpoints would
have created a hole in the bowl, and negative X-values would have caused the center
of the bowl to overlap itself, complicating the model needlessly. Neither error
would really be noticeable once fruit is placed in the bowl, but you should learn to
build items like this the right way.
Perhaps you want to make a bottle or a glass? Use this exact process for a clean, smooth
model.You can also use a Spline Curve with the Lathe tool to create very tight but smooth
corners??”sort of the same effect as beveling an edge, but with less work.
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