Copy and Paste ??

[Kotayus]

because your copying the cylinder...not the polys? that would be my guess.

[Kotayus]

how about: copy and paste the cylinder, then with the copied cylinder select the polys you want, then STRUCTURE > EDIT SURFACE > DISSCONNECT and...um presto, i think...if thats the solution your looking for.

[AdamT]

You have to make sure the structure manager is active before you copy and paste--or use Structure Manager-->Edit-->Copy/Paste.

[JIII]

did not know you could do that with polys thanks adam.

[Furious]

Originally posted by Kotayus
You have to make sure the structure manager is active before you copy and paste--or use Structure Manager-->Edit-->Copy/Paste.
I just tried this and it did not work. However, I am not that bright and probably did it wrong.

Should it be this difficult the copy/past selected poly's?


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[bcbarnes]

As adam said, make sure the structure manager is active, and also make sure that it is in "poly" mode, not points or uv, etc. mode.

[Furious]

Sorry, nothing I did using the structure manager worked.

Perhaps, it is what i want that does not work. I want to be able to choose any number of poly's of an object and copy/paste them to create a new object while leaving the original object unaffected. Possible??

Only thing that did work is the create a copy of the entire object, move it and delete the unwanted poly's. Bit of a pain.


Anyway, thanks for the help.


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[JIII]

hmm I don't think its you I tried the copy paste polys thing it doesnt work.

it only works with points. then you have to bridge together.

one thing you can do is use split which will take your polygon selection and make it into a new object. once you do that move your new object/polys to a new position and then use connect to turn it back into one object.

its a bit easyier than copy pasting the whole object.

[bcbarnes]

Well I'll be...you're right. I just tried copy/pasting some polys from one object to another, and it doesn't work. :(

[c4d-WaRRioR]

rightclick -> clone - set from 12 to 1 copy and rotation from 180° to 0° :surprised ;)

[Furious]

Originally posted by JIII
...one thing you can do is use split which will take your polygon selection and make it into a new object. once you do that move your new object/polys to a new position and then use connect to turn it back into one object...

I tried this and it worked up to a point. Connect did indeed combine the seperate objects into one, but it does not really connect them. That is, if I select a poly that shares an edge with what was just a seperate object and do a move it does not pull the adjacent poly's of the once seperate object with it.

What did reconnect them for me was optimize. Is this standard, or did I do something backasswards?


Originally posted by c4d-WaRRioR
...rightclick -> clone - set from 12 to 1 copy and rotation from 180° to 0° ...

I did this as well. But it creates a null object that has tied to it a complete copy of the original object. Again I have to go through the process of deleting extra stuff.



Sorry to be such a thickheaded newbie, but right now I am really frustrated.



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[JIII]

There is no command to copy past or split polys into something else.

You absolutly have to optimize or weld the points together, or maybe snapping would do it to.

but there is not really an automatic way to make points weld to each other.

if there was it would get really hectic cause parts of faces would like weld together and it would be a total mess.

you are gonna have to stick with the manual way for now.

[kiwi]

Use the SPLIT command instead,its a lot cleaner and you just connect both objects back together when you are finished :)



Stu.

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