This technique should be handy for anything that gets repeated in a circle, not just architectural columns. If completed correctly, you should have columns going around the center. Go back and delete the cylinder and the extruded bits. (All associated columns should select too.) Select separate from the menu. Select all the extruded bits in the center in body (object) mode. Now the 'missing' column is rotated into its proper position.ĭiscard temporary objects (It has the blue arrow sticking out of it, if not too clear otherwise.) Without deselecting the item from before, click rotate about selection. In this case the missing column is spotted poking through the bottom.Ĭlicking on it in body (object) mode will select it and its corresponding extruded bit. On random occasions it will rotate items being put on. Select errant object įret not, fellow Wings3D user! There's a sort of bug in the Put-On command that occasionally makes it behave funny. What's this? Something's not quite right. Select all visible faces on the cylinder.Īfter executing the Put-On, you should see all your columns duplicated around the central cylinder. Without deselecting the face, unhide the cylinder. Select the face on the extruded bit that was facing the cylinder. Select the extruded bit and the object to be duplicated and combine them. Loop cut the extrusion from the cylinder. Pick a side on the cylinder and extrude it outward by an arbitrary amount. Place this cylinder so that its axis passes through the desired centerpoint. You may need to enable advanced menus first in preferences.

To set the number of sides on a cylinder either right click on cylinder or on the adjacent box.

Setting up duplication įirst figure out what number of times you want the object to go around the point.Ĭreate a new cylinder with the number of sides set to this number. Let's say we want to duplicate the twisted column on the right in a circle around the point indicated by the red spot.

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