topic Clone selection in place in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Clone selection in place

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:55:24 GMT

I am a fairly new user of 3DS Max, I know how to create objects from scratch from primitives or face by face, but I am obviously not very skilled yet.

I want to create a clone of the selected faces, and leave it in place so I can create a second object based on the clone.

When I do a normal clone of this, I get the whole object, and not just the selection, So I want to clone just the ring of faces selected above, so the existing object and the new object will be in the same place.

I have spent over an hour trying to find how to do this online, but without success. I search for 3DS Max but most of the results refer to Maya!

Re: Clone selection in place

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:20:47 GMT

Hi, just press Shift on your keyboard and move, rotate or scale and select between clone as object or clone as element.

Re: Clone selection in place

Daf — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:01:06 GMT

Right - or click on "Detach" from the "Edit Geometry" Panel - then choose "Detach As Clone" and/or other options in that dialog.

Daf

Re: Clone selection in place

A01366707 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:55:54 GMT

Thanks for putting another way to do it, you literally saved a college student in a hurry with a lot of stress and homework, I can't thank U enough, I've been trying to do this for 3 hours 😭😭😭