Freestyle Overview

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Freestyle Overview

The Freestyle Help describes how to manipulate and recursively subdivide faces, edges, or vertices of a polygonal control mesh to create new vertices and faces. Refer to these topics for information on manipulating the control mesh to create symmetrical Freestyle geometry.

Tasks for Freestyle

• Working in the Freestyle Modeling Environment

◦ Introduction to Freestyle Features

◦ Selecting Mesh Elements

◦ Manipulating the Dragger

◦ Snapping the Dragger to a Reference

• Manipulating the Polygonal Control Mesh

◦ Moving or Rotating the Control Mesh

◦ Scaling the Control Mesh

◦ Aligning the Mesh Elements

◦ Positioning the Mesh Elements

◦ Extruding Mesh Elements

◦ Connecting Mesh Elements

◦ Splitting Mesh Elements

◦ Deleting Mesh Elements

◦ Creasing a Control Mesh

• Creating Symmetrical Freestyle Geometry

◦ Mirroring Mesh Elements

• Performing Multilevel Subdivision

◦ Modifying Topology Using Multilevel Subdivision