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    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.

  • 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

  • Adam Trachtenberg

    March 6, 2009 at 3:37 pm

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

  • Richard Quinn

    March 6, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    Hi Adam,

    Sorry about the dead link.

    This one should work.

    Cheers,

    Rich

  • Brian Jones

    March 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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

  • 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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