• Maxon Cinema 4D

  tangential duplication of an object

  Posted by Richard Quinn on March 5, 2009 at 7:09 pm

  Hi,

  Does anyone know how to duplicate an object along a spline but for the object to be position tangential and not just pointing in an X or Y direction.

  I have 100 rectangular blocks that I want to position along a spline.

  Cheers,

  Rich

  Richard Quinn replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  March 6, 2009 at 2:37 am

  Are you using the Duplicate tool for this? If so activate Enable Rotation and choose the appropriate Align axis. If you are using some other tool (MoGraph or a plugin( we’d need to know which tool.
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  Richard Quinn

  March 6, 2009 at 11:47 am

  Hi Brian,

  I am using the duplicate tool. I enabled rotation but my posts are still not aligning to the wall.

  Attached is the project file if you have time to have a look.

  Cheers,

  Rich
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  March 6, 2009 at 3:37 pm

  “Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.”
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  Richard Quinn

  March 6, 2009 at 4:37 pm

  Hi Adam,

  Sorry about the dead link.

  This one should work.

  Cheers,

  Rich
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  Brian Jones

  March 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm

  When you Duplicate don’t use a Rail spline. Like this
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  Richard Quinn

  March 7, 2009 at 10:41 am

  Thanks again Brian……I would have been scratching my head all weekend on that one!

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