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Carrara F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 05 6:06 am)
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Marque - When you say grab a part of a model. Do you mean to take like the head from a figure and bring it into the modeler (vertex) by itself without the rest of the figure? Clint
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Thanks Clint. No, say I have a plane, and I want to slice the prop so that I can make it rotate in Poser. Would I bring in the plane and slice it up somehow? I have Carrara, Lightwave, Truespace 4 (not installed right now) and C4D. Just wonder which would be best for something like this and how I would just slice that piece off so I can re-attach it under a different name so I can manipulate it in Poser. Bear with me, just woke up and no coffee yet. *^| Marque
Just a stab at a suggestion. If you have the plane model and all you want in Poser is the propeller, take it into Carrara's vertex modeller (I don't know for sure if that's what it's called, as I have RayDream Studio, but it's basically the same thing). Go to a side view. Select all the verteces on the model except the propeller. Delete them. Leave the vertex modeller, then export the propeller as an .obj. If you need the rest of the plane you'd have to save working copies of the full model, do what I described for the propeller, but backwards -- that is to say, select only the propeller verteces and delete them. Hope this helps.
Here's what I do. In the vertex modeler 1. select the polygons you want to detach. 2. use the detach command in the selection menu. 3. use the cut command 4. use the paste command By using cut and paste Carrara will allow you to name the now detached mesh. I find that naming the meshes makes selecting meshes in the vertex modeler a little easier. If you want the props as a separate vertex model you will have to add a vertex model to the assembly room and paste the detached mesh into it. I hope this all makes sense, I'm not real good at explaining things. Keith
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How do I just grab and keep part of a model please? If I have an object and I want to grab a piece of it so I can slice it up to use in Poser how would I go about it. I'll take any help even if it's a pointer to a page in the manual or the Carrara 1 Bible, or dummies book or tutorial manual. 8^) Thanks, Marque