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Reshaping planks for a triangular roof

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Reshaping planks for a triangular roof

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- [Instructor] Now that we're done with the roof portion, I would like to take you through something a bit more complex, and it's this part over here. Now, what I see, there is triangular shape on all four sides, and the planks need to sit right on the triangular shape. So, one quick way would be I select this portion, hold Shift, drag, make a copy, and bring that down. Now, for this, I will be using these planks here, and I have, actually, them as separate pieces, and did exactly the same way I made the other ones, here, for the roof. I'm going to select all these planks, hold Alt + Q, and then any of this plank being selected, I will go to Modify panel, and hit this Attach button, the small box in front of Attach, and I will only see the planks, or the geometry that is visible in the screen. So, I'm going to select everything, and hit attach, and it's going to make this as one piece, and I will center the pivot to the object. In fact, I will just move it to this side, here, and…

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