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Spa cing Tool
The Spacing Tool distributes the vases along the sides of the
curved street.
The Spacing Tool distributes along a path defined
byasplineorpairofpoints.Youdefineapathby
picking a spline or two points and by setting a
number of parameters. You can also specify how
the sp a cing b e tween objects is determined and
whether the insertion p oints of the objec t s align to
the t angent of the spline.
See Spacing Tool (page 1–455).
Clone and Ali gn Tool
The Clone And Align tool lets you distribut e
source objects b ased on the current selection to
a second selection of destination objects. For
example, you can use Clone And Align to populate
several rooms simultaneously with the same
furniture arrangement. Similarly, if you impor t a
CAD file that contains 2D sy mbols that represent
chairs in a conference room, you can use Clone
And Align to replace the symbols with 3D chair
objects en masse.
See Clone and Align Tool (page 1–459).
Cl on e
Make a selection. > Edit menu > Clone
Make a selection. > Hold down Shift key. > Move,
rotate, or scale the selection with the mouse.
Clone creates a copy, instance, or reference of an object.
With the Clone command you can create copies,
instances, or references of a selected object or a
set of objects.
TheClonecommandontheEditmenucreates
a single copy of your selection. Alternatively,
youcanclonemultiplecopiesbyholdingdown
the
Shi f t key as you move (page 1–439), rotate
(page 1–439) ,orscale (page 1–440) your selection.
Either method displays the Clone Options dialog
(page 1–476).
Clone Opti ons Dia log
Make a selection. > Edit menu > Clone
Make a selection. > Hold down Shift key. > Move,
rotate, or scale the selection with the mouse.
Clone creates a copy, instance (page 3–957) ,or
reference (page 3–1002) of a selected object or set
of objects. The Clone command on the Edit menu
creates a single copy. You can clone multiple copies