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Creating similar and matched type

Creating similar and matched type

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Creating similar and matched type

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- In this movie, I'd like to look at two different approaches to reusing existing content within your project to help speed up production a little bit. We've got Match Type and we've got Create Similar. So, you know, often you're looking at, you know, your design and you're thinking, "Well, geez, I'd like to have, maybe, "another one of these chairs," right? Now, certainly, you could copy or you could mirror to create another one of those chairs, but there's also another really easy way to do it. You could just simply select the chair up here on this Create Panel on the Modify tab. You've got the Create Similar tool. But that'll just put me in the Component tool and it will place the chair on my cursor and then I can go and create more chairs. Tap the spacebar to rotate them. Couple more times and, you know, create another little collection of chairs. Now, that tool works equally well with other geometry, like walls, so…

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