From the course: Modeling an F1 Wheel in Maya
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Mirroring across the centerline with Duplicate Special - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Modeling an F1 Wheel in Maya
Mirroring across the centerline with Duplicate Special
In this video I want to show you how to mirror this component across the center line. And in chapter two, let's open up file 07, mirror. At the very top, this is the body symmetry file that we're going to achieve at the end of the next series of videos. If we go down one to body chamfor, let's mirror this part across the center line. I noticed I'm missing the edge loops. So we could quickly add those back in. Insert edge loop tool. Reset. Let's put one here, one here and one right at the very end like that. Q to quite the command. Right mouse button. Object mode. And now what we're going to do is we're going to remove these center faces here. Because when we duplicate and mirror this over, we will have duplicate center faces. In fact, we don't want any faces in there at all. It has to be an open cavity. We'll just right mask button, face. Pick one quad. Next quad down here double click. Now notice it picks up a series of quads like that and then we're going to shift and select the…
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Using the Create Polygon tool2m 12s
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Snapping polygons2m 58s
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Creating quads with the Interactive Split tool3m 15s
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Creating a solid with the Extrude tool1m 47s
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Adding a chamfer using the Bevel tool6m 7s
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Understanding the Insert Edge Loop tool2m 47s
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Mirroring across the centerline with Duplicate Special2m 54s
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Alternatives to Duplicate Special2m 2s
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Understanding the Combine and Merge commands1m 59s
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Using the Merge Vertex tool5m 16s
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Using the software renderer for quick renders2m 29s
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Using mental ray for higher-quality renders3m 27s
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Understanding mental ray's Approximation Editor3m 16s
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