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Use the
Arrow keys to orient yourself in such a way that you have roughly
a front view of the scene, and zoom out (.) so the circle isn't
filling much of the screen, perhaps only about 20 percent. Hold
the CONTROL key down and then use the vertical (up/down) arrow
keys again, and you'll be moving the camera up or down. Make
the circle get close to the bottom of the screen so there's
much room left above the circle. We'll now do an extrusion,
which will use the circle to make a bottle.
Select
the Extrusion tool (sixth from the top in the Construction
toolkit). Then click on the circle again. You're now starting
to extrude the circle into a cylindrical shape.
Hit 2 for
a front view. Adjust the view with the arrow keys as needed.
Start creating the shape of a bottle, section by section, clicking
a few points up. If you mess up, undo with BACKSPACE.
In order
to force the sections along a perfect vertical alignment, hit
the SPACEBAR. This toggles the red/green axes to go from both
to one or the other axes. After a few clicks, you'll have something
resembling the image below, and you'll be working your way up
to the bottleneck.
When it's
time to start moving inward, break out of the vertical motion
lock by hitting the SPACEBAR again until both axes are shown
again and keep moving freely. If you don't like the granular
'snapping' to grid positions and prefer to move the cursor totally
freely, just increase or decrease the sensitivity of the grid
lock with the +/- keys.
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