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Boundary Boss/Base

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Boundary Boss/Base

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- [Instructor] Boundary Boss Base, what in the world is a Boundary Boss Base? Well, a Boundary Boss Base is kind of like a hybrid between a sweep and a loft. So most of the time we need to create a somewhat of a wire frame to determine what our final shape's going to be. And let me show you how to do that. So basically what we want to do is we want to take this circular profile here, and then we want to create and kind of loft and morph that feature, down here to a flat surface on the bottom. So to do that, we've already got the circle, right? And I've got a little line here determining where that's going to be. So now I want to go over here to this front plane and click on sketch. And let's go ahead and create a line. And notice, I don't want to try to snap to here, I just want to actually make a line directly in front of that. And then here's a little trick. If you actually go back on the line and go forward, it actually transitions over to a tangent arc. And I want to make a…

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