Finishing the Power Charger Model
7. Hide your work and unhide Two-hole
Housing-Left and Two-hole Housing-Right. The finished model of the two-hole housing appears. 8. Save your work as my_charger8.max.
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7. Position the clone so it is between the four
strut landings (the flat planes on the top of the two-hole housing). First move it in the YZ plane, then on the X axis.
Next you will make another power conduit and some struts.
Finishing the Power Charger Model
On the toolbar, click the Select And Move button, and then make sure the reference coordinate system is set to Local.
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Use Arc Rotate to rotate the viewport so you can see the new position from another angle.
You’ll complete the power charger using versions of methods you learned earlier in the tutorial, but you’ll also learn a new technique that lets you create a new object based on an existing object’s position and orientation. Open a starting file:
• Choose File > Open and browse to the \tutorials\new_modeling folder. Open the file tut_powercharger_base5.max. Clone the conduit: 1. Click to select the Power Conduit - Base object
in the viewport. 2. Right-click and choose Rotate from the
Transform quadrant. 3. If necessary, press the = key to enlarge the
Transform gizmo. You’ll clone the object as you rotate it. 4. Hold down the Shift key and then rotate the
object about the X axis by 90 degrees. Watch the coordinate display in the status bar as you rotate the object. 5. In the Clone Options dialog, make sure Copy
is chosen, name the object Power Conduit Midlink. Click OK.
Move in local YZ plane.
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