Duplicating Polygons Vertices problems

# 1 13-09-2008 , 04:40 PM

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Hi everyone,
i am having a problem, im trying to model a basic house with room layouts and walls; seems straightforward, but when i duplicate a wall and rotate it to a new position , i want to select the vertices of my duplicated wall to change the size, but when i select it; both the original wall and the duplicated wall change with the transformation tools, can anyone help its driving me mad.

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# 2 13-09-2008 , 04:59 PM

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How did you duplicate it? Try deleting history. whatever it is it should work.
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# 3 13-09-2008 , 06:01 PM

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I guess that you made instances of the objects you duplicated.
Try using the duplicate options (in edit rollout) and make a 'copy' of your objects in place of 'instance'.

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# 4 13-09-2008 , 10:24 PM

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vertices duplication

hi Guys thanks for this, ill try when i get into work, but to answer your question i just pushed duplicate on a polygon cube, and rotated 90 degrees and rather than use the scale tool i selected the vertices and then the corresponding point on the original polygon went yellow.
Have i not set-up something in the settings and preferences
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# 5 14-09-2008 , 12:15 AM

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Yeah it does sound like you have 'instance' checked instead of 'copy' under the dupe options.

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# 6 14-09-2008 , 02:58 PM

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so close

hi Guys
ok no luck so far, but Genny said to look in the dupe settings but i cant find these, and i have looked under the preferences section, we are so close to fixing this please help
Bob

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