<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Duplicate</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="ObjectMode" HREF="c2066.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Transform Properties Panel" HREF="x2216.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Parenting (Grouping)" HREF="x2239.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide: Last modified April 29 2004 S68</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x2216.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >ObjectMode</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x2239.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="mesh_modelling_objectmode_duplicate" ></A >Duplicate</H1 ><P > To duplicate an object, press <B CLASS="keycap" >SHIFT-D</B > to create an identical copy of the selected objects. The copy is created at the same position, in Grab mode. </P ><P > This is a new object except that it shares any Material, Texture, and IPO with the original. These attributes are linked to both copies and changing the material of one object also changes the material of the other. (You can make separate materials for each, as described in the Materials Chapter.) </P ><P > You can create a <I CLASS="emphasis" >Linked Duplicate</I > rather than a real duplicate by pressing <B CLASS="keycap" >ALT-D</B >. This will create a new object with <I CLASS="emphasis" >all</I > of its data linked to the original object. If you modify one of the linked objects in EditMode, all linked copies are also modified. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x2216.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x2239.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Transform Properties Panel</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c2066.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Parenting (Grouping)</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >