Duplicate an object to a new instance so that changes propagate to children?

[ryan9CXU3]

How do you create a new instance from object so that when you make changes to the original parent object the children inherit them?

Docs looked like shift+D or shift+ctrl+D but if I dup a ball with those then change the parent object size the dup does not change?

In blender this is alt+D.

[mspeer]

Hi!

Open the Settings for Duplicate Special and set it to "Instance".

[Abdulla-Qaladzay]

Hi @ryan9CXU3 

instance duplicate is working on component ID 

if we scale and translate the instance or the original in object-mode it does't affect the others

if we need that behavior "an instance object that works with object ID and component ID"

-we can use constraints or connection editor "connectAttr " with the instance objects, watch the video attachment "instanceObjects.mp4"

-or simply we can use scale and translate all the components in order to achieve the same behavior.