19th December 2004, 08:40 AM | #1 |
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Say I have an object that is completely symetrical about its center, like an automobile, and to save work I plot only one side, meaning cut down the centerline of the vehicle drawing only one half of this object.
Now I copy that one drawn side, flip it and the task is now to re-align the two pieces at the center. The question is how does one go about joining these two exact opposites so that these two pieces align exactlly, mating all the vertices at the joint? :?: |
19th December 2004, 12:59 PM | #2 |
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Use Object->mirror.
You can also use the realtime mirror (view menu) whilst you model to see what your 'whole' object would appear as. Andy |
19th December 2004, 01:30 PM | #3 |
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If you do a standard mirror, it will place the new parts amongst the old ones, leaving you to move it into place (and introduce error!) manually.
Object>Mirror --> X Axis is your ticket if you're working with the standard front, LEFT side and Plan/TOP views.That will produce a new half in the proper position, on the other side of the Z axis line. To make it all mate up right, and to make ONE part of any part that lies right along that Z axis, you have to Snap Together (or "weld") all the centerline vertice pairs. If you are EXACTING in your creation of the halves, and can be sure that the vertices are right on the center Z line, you can make one "Snap Vertices by distance" command with a small tolerance, like 0.0005, and provided all the centerline vertices are right on top of each other, they'll join up in one fell swoop. But if there's any close detail at the centerline, of vertices that should not be snapped together, then you have to be more careful.
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20th December 2004, 05:21 AM | #4 |
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Thanks, what I was missing is the vertices were not exactlly at the vertical centerline.
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