Primitives

Reference

Mode

Object Mode and Edit Mode

Menu

Add ‣ Curve

Hotkey

Shift-A

See also

When adding curves there are some common options like other Objects.

In Object/Edit Mode, the Add Surface menu, provides six different surface primitives:

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NURBS surface primitives.

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NURBS curve primitives.

NURBS Curve

NURBS Curve only have one control point on each V row.

TODO.

NURBS Circle

NURBS Circle only have one control point on each V row.

TODO.

Note how a circle NURBS surface is never filled, unlike its “real” curve counterpart…

NURBS Surface

TODO.

NURBS Cylinder

TODO.

NURBS Sphere

TODO.

NURBS Torus

TODO.