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Clone
This tool enables you to duplicate the surfaces or points of an object and optionally rotate the
duplicated items about the object axis. You may also specify an offset that is used to move the
duplicated elements along the object axis.
Only selected elements (surfaces or points) are cloned. In point mode the selected points are cloned
individually without their adjacent surfaces. If no elements are selected or if you are not in point or
polygon mode, the complete object geometry is cloned. With this method you could, for example,
create a spiral staircase simply by creating a cube, converting this to a polygon object (using the Make
Editable command), scaling it (e.g. to X = 200, Y = 30, Z = 80), moving its object axis in the X direction
and then using Clone with these values:
Clones
Denes the number of clones along the selected object axis. Offset, Scale and Rotation specify the
parameters for the nal clone. The intermediate clones use interpolated values.
Holes
With this percentage value you can dene the number of cloned elements that you want to be omitted
from the total. With 0% the full number of clones is created. With 50% only half will be created. The
omitted elements are randomly selected. With 100% no new elements at all will be created.