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Duplicating objects with Clone

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Duplicating objects with Clone

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- [Voiceover] When we duplicated these objects in an array, they got created as something called an instance. An instance is an object that is identical to another object. We can illustrate that by selecting any one of these, and going to the modify panel and playing around with the parameters. If I change the length for example, we'll get wider stairs. Each one of those is a separate object, but they're all instanced, so they'll all share the same parameters. I'll set that back to four feet, four, and apostrophe, and Enter. Let's also look at cloning objects outside of the array tool, because we can duplicate any object and choose to either make it a unique copy or a shared instance. I want to make some sides to my staircase here. Go to the create panel, and in geometry, standard primitives, just draw out a box. Select the box tool and in the top view, click and drag to set the footprint, and then drag up to set the height, and then click. Now we want to change these parameters here.…

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