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- All right.

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Let's switch gears a little bit

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and let's talk about the shell tool.

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So if you go to the toolbox, you have the shell tool here.

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And so if you double click on that

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you can kind of see what its capabilities are.

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Again, we have the ability to adjust where that height is

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so that base of that shell is going to be

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and a shell is really just a more complex

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kind of roof structure,

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but it can also represent other types of elements.

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So you can have a dome,

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you can have a multi pitched shell

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and you can also do like a rotated shell

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and you can start to create different elements

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that you wouldn't normally be able to create

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with the roof tool alone.

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So let's quickly look at this and just put it on the roof.

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And so I'm going to leave all these settings

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pretty much the same

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and we're just going to create a simple barrel roof.

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Let's do that on the side here.

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So first I click,

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and this is going to tell me how long the roof is

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and then this will create the barrel.

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So looks pretty simple in floor plan.

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And now, if we look at this in 3D

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we can see that it's created a pretty long barrel roof.

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And what I can do here is I can adjust how high

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that top of that barrel is.

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And so I can reduce it down.

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And then if I wanted to make it a composite

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I could do that as well.

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And I could start to make it maybe like a shingled roof

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and you could see that it's a shingled roof

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and it has some thickness to it.

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And I want to show you one other thing that you can do

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with these shell tool.

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So you can do a revolved shell

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and you can actually give it kind of a complex shape here.

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So, you could use this to create

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a little bit more complex of shapes.

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I'm going to make it a little bit rounder there

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and I'm going to double click to finish.

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And then the next click is going to give me

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kind of the overall shape that.

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And so it's a little bit off of the ankle

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but you can see what's going to happen.

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So it's asking me how much of a revolution do I want?

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So I'm just going to go 360 for this

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and just show you what the capabilities are here.

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So I'm just going to select that.

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And then I'm going to view that in 3D

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and just view, everything.

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So you can see that

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this is going to get a little bit more complex of a shape.

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This can work in both plan view, and you can also

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create this shape in cross-section or elevation view.

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And so we can also change that rotation.

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So it's back 180

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or whatever kind of rotation we're looking at.

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So I just changed the revolution there.

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And so now that is at 180 degrees.

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And so you could see there's a lot

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of possibilities with this tool.

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I definitely recommend familiarizing yourself

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with it and playing around with it so you can get

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a little bit more understanding of its capabilities.