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CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO KNOW VIZ
of an axis. For example, put your mouse over the green dot at the end of the Y axis and drag
to scale in that direction only.
Once you master the mechanics of the new transform gizmos, you will find that you have much
finer and more intuitive control over your objects as compared to earlier versions of VIZ.
Copying an Object
You’ve covered just about all the ways of moving, rotating, and scaling an object in the Perspective
viewport. If you want to copy an object, you use the same methods you would use to move, rotate,
or scale objects—with the addition of holding down the Shift key. Try the following steps to see
how copying, or cloning as it’s called in VIZ, works. (Copying is one of the forms of a more general
function called cloning.)
1. From the File menu, choose Open. The Open File dialog box appears. Navigate to the Chap-
ter 1 files on the Sybex website. Select the Chair.max file and then click the Open button.
2. Click the Select Object button in the Main toolbar and then select the chair.
3. Click the Select and Move button.
4. While holding down the Shift key, drag the chair to the left. A second chair appears.
5. Release the mouse button. The Clone Options dialog box displays. This dialog box lets you
control the quantity and type of copies you’re making as well as the name of the new objects.
6. In the Object group of the Clone Options dialog box, select Copy.
7. Click OK. The new chair is added to your model.
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