What else can you do with NURBS in Blender? If you've got a good idea and a plan, you can use them to make pretty much anything. This won't impact the number of control points that you have at your disposal, however-it's just used to increase or decrease the number of subdivisions breaking up the NURBS object itself.

Holding Shift during a transform operation will transform the object at 1/10th the speed, allowing much finer control. When using Increment Snap this allows the transformation to be performed in discrete amounts.

Under Object Data Properties in the Properties panel, you can also dial into your curve or surface Resolution settings. Holding Ctrl during a transform operation (such as move, rotate or scale) will toggle Transform Snapping. This parameter pulls and pushes on the procession of points making up the curve, depending on how close they are to each weighted vertex, piling up and stretching out accordingly.

One handy trick for flattening your NURBS surface: select every control point, and use the Scale tool to scale everything's Z axis down to zero while leaving everything else as-is using the Adjust Last Operation panel in the bottom left-hand corner.Īside from the placement of each control point, you can also adjust them by Weight-the W field in the vertex's Control Panel settings.

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