Manual Wings3D

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Wings3D
User Reference Manual

DRAFT 1.61
(Current as of Rev. 0.98.10d)
June 12, 2003
by Jon M. Strother
this edition’s layout
by Jason McAlpin
with contributions from the
Wings3D user community.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1: Installation
1.1 Windows
1.2 Linux
1.3 Solaris
1.4 Mac
Section 2: The Wings3D User
Interface
2.1 General Overview
2.2 The Title Bar
2.3 The Menu Bar
2.4 The Icon Bar
2.5 The Status Bar
2.6 Dialog Boxes
2.7 Context Sensitive Menus
2.8 TheInformation String
Section 3: A Quick Start Guide
3.1 Finger exercises to get you
started.
3.2 Your First Real Model; a Dog
House.
3.3 Creating A Hand (an intrinsically
organic shape)
3.4 Adding Detail
3.5 Finishing It Off
Section 4: The Nature of Subdivision
Modeling
4.1 Subdivision and Such
4.2 The Nature of Edge Loops
4.3 Winged Edge Topology
Section 5: The Wings3D CommandReference Guide
5.1 The Main Menu
5.1.1 The File Menu
5.1.2 The Edit Menu
5.1.3 The View Menu
5.1.4 The Select Menu
5.1.5 The Tools Menu
5.1.6 The Objects Menu

5.1.7 The Help Menu
5.2 The Context Sensitive Menus
5.2.1 The Primitives Menu
5.2.2 The Vertex Operations Menu
5.2.3 The Edge Operations Menu
5.2.4 The Face Operations Menu
5.2.5 The Body Operations Menu
5.3 Advanced Menus
5.4...