HELP! please

Brian

Brian:

I was hoping someone had a great solution, but here's a brute force method.  In assembly room duplicate the piece you have (edit>duplicate).  Manually place the new duplicate with one end at the opposite end of the original piece.  When you duplicate the new piece again, it should duplicate to the end of itself.  Repeat until desired length is achieved.  If it has to be really long, try stringing four together, group them, then duplicate the group.

I'm sure there's an easier way, but that's what I'd try.

Klebnor

Thanks but not the answer I hoped for.
Creating a long straight line duplication, especially in MoI, is a piece of cake.

Brian

You mention Hexagon, would the Necklace or possibly the Tank Track tutorials help in making a length of barbed wire?

Thanks, I forgot them--I knew there was something in my memory.

Fingers crossed that thats the solution.

Brian

Ideally, it would be great if we could use the , say, Surface Replicator!

Any ideas how that idea could be implemented?
Brian

Klebnor's brute force method seems to be the right start. First turn on collision before duplicating. Then duplicate. Then select and move the duplicate over so it pops through the collision zone, and before letting go slide it back such that it meets the original end to end. Then after that adjust the rotation so that it matches up. Then hit ctrl+D to make to length. (If you do those in that order, duplicate will both turn and offset for each copy.) After that's all done, group. Then apply the bend&twist modifier to the group and experiment from there with the modifier settings.

Dunno if that would work 100% (I'd suspect some error in the rotation unless it's a specific value that can be snapped to), but I wouldn't be surprised if that put you in the ballpark.