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Alternatives to Duplicate Special

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Alternatives to Duplicate Special

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In this video I'm going to show you an alternative method to mirroring a part across a center line. So in the chapter two, let's open up file 08 alternatives. Under the Layer structure we're going to switch off Body_Symmetry and let's open up Body_Champe again. Just right-click on there, select the center faces, double-click and with the Shift held down, I'm going to select the two N-gons at the end, and delete. I select the object, and we're going to go ahead, Delete My Type > History, Modify > Freeze Transformations, Modify > Reset Transformations. Now at this point rather than using the duplicate special function, I'm just going to use the hot key Ctrl+D to duplicate this part. So you'll notice there's actually two components here. At this point, I'm going to go over to the scale factor for x on the right hand side there and I'm just going to change this to minus 1, and Enter. Effectively, this is what duplicate special does. I want to delete this part. And I'll show you another…

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