07-19-2007, 03:45 PM | #1 |
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Incremental rotation thing
How do you do that thing where you make a cross section of a cylinder design, then "paste special" x copies with x rotation to complete the cylinder? For example, making one spoke of a wheel and then pasting it with x copies and rotation to make a complete wheel. My google skills have failed me, im sure there was a tutorial on the interwack for this.
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07-19-2007, 05:01 PM | #2 |
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are you talking about "ctrl + m" to rotate an object?
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07-19-2007, 05:06 PM | #3 |
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yea, ctrl+m, if you know how much of an angle it needs to be turned.
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07-19-2007, 07:30 PM | #4 |
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er i think he is talking about making a array... afaik hammer can't , otherwise you have to do ^ and keep making coppies
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07-20-2007, 12:46 PM | #5 |
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like barron said, hammer doesn't do arrays.
neither does it allow you to pick a center point to rotate objects around. instead, it rotates around the center of the object. so, to make a wheel with 12 spokes (think clock numbers), the first spoke might be at 12. if you were to copy/rotate it by 30 degrees, then the original and the copy would have the same centers, and the copy would need to be manually positioned to point at 1 o'clock. next one would be the same etc. if you were to copy/rotate the first one by 180 degrees, it would still need to be lined up with 6 o'clock, but the center of the 2 pieces (12, and 6), would be the exact center of the clock face. now select both pieces together, and any further copies will rotate on the center of the clockface. |
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07-20-2007, 01:12 PM | #6 | |
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07-22-2007, 11:58 AM | #7 |
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you can try making an archway with the angle set to 360 degrees, then using the add height thingy. that makes spiral starcases etc
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07-22-2007, 01:39 PM | #8 |
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I wanted to make a complicated "slice" and have it copied to make a cylinder with detailed sides. No biggie, not wanting to make anything specific just mess around, this would be a useful function tho.
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07-23-2007, 11:18 AM | #9 |
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suggest it to valve as a feature to add. i dont have the link but i remember coming across a page where you could suggest new features.
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