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Old 11th September 2007, 07:26 PM   #1
Keef
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Default Cutting objects in two.

*klaxons* Noob alert.

2nd day of using AC3D. Still reading? Awesome! I want to mirror a particular shape, say a wing of a plane, so I can take the duplicate shape and put it on the other end of the fuselage.

In playing with the program, I've discovered the mirror function. Works great, but it groups the mirrored shape with the original shape. Is there any way to prevent this, or if not, split them into two shapes? Or is there a more appropriate way of what I'm trying to get at?

You rule in advance.
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Old 11th September 2007, 07:57 PM   #2
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Default Re: Cutting objects in two.

You'll have to split them into 2 objects manually after the mirror.

You can make the wings in your example separate objects by going into Surface mode and selecting all the surfaces on one side of the axis/object, then performing a "Surface -> Cut away object" (I believe that's the command name, don't have the UI up at the moment). This should do what you need...

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Old 11th September 2007, 08:26 PM   #3
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Worked great! :thumb:
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