Re: Re: Alt-D not doing what I expect.

Juan Franco <jumafra77-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.blender.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the update GSR.
I haven't used linked objects much, and the diference
between shift-D and alt-D became evident just when i
went into edit mode...

--- GSR - FR <famrom-4jpfX+jSyEvdNFYlk2OXiVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> jumafra77-/[email protected] (2005-09-27 at 1533.24 -0700):
> > I think you better use Shift-D for duplicating.
> > I believe Alt-D shortcut works only in object
> mode.
> > Shift-D works both in object and edit mode.
> > And for mirror, it should be M (in edit mode) or
> > Ctrl-M (in objetc mode) and then select the proper
> > mirror axis.
> 
> Shift+d is duplicate. Alt+d is linked duplicate,
> which only makes
> sense when there are blocks to link (two objects,
> one mesh block). If
> you want meshes that follow what you do, you want
> linked.
> 
> Docs could be a bit outdated, but the idea is in the
> images:
>
http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI/x3363.html
> 
> Linked duplicate is also nice to make columns, for
> example, as you can
> edit one and all will update.
> 
> GSR
>  
> 



		
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