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7.
At any time, when Pick is off, you can change
the source selection in a viewport. This causes
the dialog to lose focus; click it again to regain
focus and refresh the viewport preview of the
clone operation.
8. To make the clones permanent, click Apply,
and then click Cancel or the close button (X, in
upper-right corner) to close the dialog.
Inter face
The Clone and Align tool takes the form of a
non-modal dialog; it remains open while you
work in the viewports. While the dialog is active,
the results of the current sett ings appear as a
preview in the viewports. Because of the dialog’s
non-modal nature, you can change the selection of
source and destination objects on the fly and see
the results immediately in the v iewports.
When the dialog focus is lost by ac tivating another
dialog or clicking in a viewport (that is , its title ba r
is gray rather than blue), the prev iew no longer
appears in the viewports. To make the cloned
objects permanent, click Apply when the dialog
is active.
Source and Destination Parameters rollout
Designatesourceobjectsbyselectingthemina
viewpor t. If you do this with the Clone And Alig n
dialog open, the dialog loses focus; click the dialog
to regain focus and update t he sett ings.
Destination Objects [label]—This read-only field
shows the number of destination objects. To
change this value, use Pick, Pick List, and Clear.
Pick —When on, each object you click in the
viewports is added to the list of destination objects.
Click again to turn off after picking all destination
objects.
To qualify as a valid destination object, an object
must:
•nothavebeendesignatedasasourceor
destination object.
• be selectable (frozen objects can’t be selected).
• not be a temporary cloned object.
Pick List—Opens the Pick Destination Objects
dialog, which lets you pick all destination objects
simultaneously, by name. In the dialog, hig hlight
the destination objects, and then click Pick.