Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
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# 1 08-02-2006 , 12:04 PM
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trouble duplicating teeth

I'm currently working on the dragon face from the free tutorial downloads. So far it's going great but i'm having a bit of trouble with the teeth. How do i duplicate the m by mirroring them because the angle is not changing so they are going out of line. I know this is a very basic question but pleae guys help me out
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# 2 08-02-2006 , 01:24 PM
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I've not done the tutorial but if you are duplicating them and they aren't mirroring in the plane correctly then you can:

1) center the pivot to the tooth (something like modify->center pivot in the menus)
2) go to your front viewport, select the tooth and click the move tool, hit insert on your keyboard so that you can move the pivot point and then hold x down (snap to grid) while dragging the horizontal line of your move tool. Make sure it snaps to the center grid line, press insert again and then duplicate your tooth (with the relelvant -1 in the x scale box.
It should sit exactly mirrored to the other tooth user added image


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# 3 13-02-2006 , 01:44 PM
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thanks alot

I'll try that out onight. My fingers are crossed. Tank youuser added image


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