form·Z 5.0 Tutorial
 

The Tutorial has been updated to version 5.0. It is provided here in two forms:
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form·Z 5.0 Tutorial (19.2 Mb)

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Table of contents (508 K)
01 Introduction (24 K)
02 The interface (1.0 Mb)
03 Drawing 2D shapes (632 K)
04 Generating objects (236 K)
05 Generating primitives (824 K)
06 Picking and editing objects (420 K)
07 Moving, rotating and scaling (384 K)
08 Derivative objects (304 K)
09 Terrain models (72 K)
10 Objects of revolution (500 K)
11 Stairs (796 K)
12 Sweeps along paths (360 K)
13 Skinning (776 K)
14 Lofts (356 K)
15 Meshes and subdivisions (1.0 Mb)
16 Deformations (564 K)
17 Rounding objects (740 K)
18 Curves (440 K)
19 Curved surfces (1.1 Mb)
20 Patches (604 K)
21 Metaformz (896 K)
22 Boolean trim and stitch operations (700 K)
23 Sections of objects and contours (112 K)
24 Text (488 K)
25 Symbols and instances (120 K)
26 Attaching (192 K)
27 Aligning and distributing (796 K)
28 Extending segments to surfaces (68 K)
29 Placing objects on other objects (316 K)
30 Attributes layers and query (236 K)
31 Insertions and deletions (124 K)
32 Reference planes and their palette (144 K)
33 Views and their palette (60 K)
34 Drafting (444 K)
35 Modeling a 3-story building frame (116 K)
36 Drafting modeling images (128 K)
37 A small building and its site (272 K)
38 A sail boat (336 K)
39 A nurbz flower (192 K)
40 A nurbz lawn chair (756 K)
41 Modeling with patches (460 K)
42 A meta mouse (1.0 Mb)
43 A composite order column (612 K)
44 Concluding the tutorial (36 K)