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966 Chapter 9: Surface Modeling
Inter face When the Handle sub-object level is active, the
Geometry rollout on the Modify panel has the
options listed below.
Topology group
Attach—Attaches an object to the cur rently
selected patch object. Click the object you want to
attach to the currently selected patch object.
For further details, see
Attach .
Reorient—When on, rotates the attached patch
object so that each object’s creation loca l
coordinate system is aligned with the creation
local coordinate system of the selected object.
Unhide A ll—Restores any hidden sub-objects to
visibility.
Tangent group
These controls let you copy or ientat ion, and
optionally length, between handles on the same
object, or on different objects applied with
instances of the same Edit Patch modifier. The tool
doesn’t support copying handles from one patch
object to another, or between spline and patch
objects.
Co py—Copies a patch handle’s transform settings
to a copy buffer.
After you click Copy, and position the mouse
cursor over a handle end, the cursor image changes
to the one shown below. Click a handle end to
copy its direction and length to the paste buffer;
this also exits Copy mode.
Pas t e—Pastes orientation information from the
copy buffer to a vertex handle. If Paste Length is
on, it also pastes the length of the copied handle.
After you click Paste, and position the mouse
cursor over a handle end, the cursor image