Modeling

How to create and edit models.

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Describes what attributes are and lists some common attributes.

Component groups

Construction plane

Copying and Instancing

Create geometry

Create, edit, and use Null objects

Edit components

Import geometry from other objects

Import, export, and cache geometry to/from disk

Locking nodes to improve efficiency

Mirror geometry across a symmetry plane

NURBS Curves and Surfaces

Points and vertices

Polygons and meshes

Quadratic primitive shapes

Refine NURBS geometry by pasting

Repair polygonal models

Reselect geometry

In Houdini you can not only edit the parameters of a surface node, you can reselect the geometry the operation applies to.

Trim NURBS surfaces

“Box up” modeling

“Curve up” modeling