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Specify the IK Handle Tool’s settings

Set-up an IK handle

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User Guide > Rigging > Character Setup > Skeletons > Pose with Forward or Inverse Kinematics > Set-up an IK handle > 

Create IK handles

To create an IK handle

1. In the Animation menu set (press F2), select Skeleton > IK Handle Tool.

   Your mouse pointer changes to the tool’s crosshair cursor.

   If you want to set the IK Handle Tool’s options, open the Tool Settings panel.

2. Click the joint in your joint chain that you want as your IK handle’s start joint.
3. Click the joint in your joint chain that you want as your IK handle’s end joint.

   An IK handle that starts and ends at the joints you selected appears on the joint chain.

4. For the new IK handle, select the IK solver to calculate the orientation of the joints in the IK handle’s joint chain.