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Editing tweaked faces

You can think of the editing methods as modes. Different controls are displayed for each method, and these controls allow you to adjust the face or surface differently.

You can choose from the following methods:

Control points

Use this method when you want to change a face by moving its control points.

Control curves

Use this method when you want to change a face by changing its control curves.

BlendSmooth and tangent transition between faces or edges; created using the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool. curves

Use this method when you want to change a face by changing its blend curves.

SweepPull a surface or face along a line or edge using the Pull tool. You can sweep faces and edges, and select straight or curved lines or edges along which to sweep. Sweeping along a spline is a pulling technique for creating a smooth, swoopy shape. See Trajectory. curves

Use this method when you are editing a face or surface created by sweeping and you want to change a face by changing its sweep curves. The sweep curves are shown in blue and the surface that was swept is shown in red. You can use these curves to make new sweep faces, and then manually swap out the new faces for the old, but they can't be used to change the original swept solid.