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Cut and Slice Plane
The Cut tool — some people swear by it, other people hate it.
I'm somewhere in between the two to be honest, and it's
mostly due to its inability to work correctly in the Perspective
view sometimes. I'll explain in a bit, but for now let's start off
by creating a sphere and making it an Editable Polygon object.
In the Edge sub-object mode, scroll down on the command
panel until you see the Cut tool. It will be in the Edit Geome-
try rollout. Go ahead and click on it, then click somewhere on
your sphere. This will place a vertex where you want to start
your cut, almost like you're pushing a knife into the sphere.
Now click somewhere else on your sphere, even quite a few
polygons away. The Cut tool will connect these two points
with a straight line as if you are slicing a knife across the sur-
face of the model between the two points.
Figure 3-23: A cut on the surface of a sphere
On an object like a sphere, the Cut tool should work flawlessly
so this will be a good example of how the Cut tool should
work. At times when you're working with the Cut tool, you'll
 
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