Bo Atkinson Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Mac OSX 10.12.3 Admitting my difficulties with rare needs for clone functionality, in different years... As of Build 10163, (the latest)… Are not cloned objects supposed to transform about each, individual centroid? Ive tried all visible settings: “as family”, “individually”, both with all pre selected and also by clicking on each one alone, without pre selection. The spheres are supposed to be clones, (made with Move / Make Clone box checked) RE spheres in image: Top-image: spheres were move/copied. Bottom image: each sphere had to be Transform/Scaled one at a time. Where I want Clones to do this for me by one scale action. Also, is there a way to verify if an object is a clone or not? Clones wil not Transform.fmz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanjl Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Yes! Great questions. I've been meaning to verbalize the same for a while. One thing I've noticed is that transforming a clone will only affect that object, and not the other clones. If the object is a controlled object, and you edit one of it's parameters, the cloning function DOES work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Clones can be transformed "individually" or "as a family". This is controlled by the option in the transformation tool options. "Individually" apples the transformation to each clones instance about its own local axis and the "as a family" option is applied to the while family as a set. Changes to a parameter of a clone are propagated to each instance individually. What we have observed is that in v8.6, the dynamic display during the transformation always functions "as a family". Once the final click of the transformation is made, the transformation is applied each object when the "individually" option is selected. See images We have logged this aa an issue and also have added suggestion to be show if an object is in a clone in the information tab (and how many siblings it has). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo Atkinson Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 Thanks Tech, I finally got it to work as expected and it does work beautifully. I had not rebooted in many days, which affects things sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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