https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180167#M97921 Can you post a sketch of what you want ?<BR /> <BR /> Edit : add a signature to your profile with your AC version &amp; system info, see mine for example. <BR /> Hint : click profile button besides register button on top of this page for signature. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:31:14 GMT Shivang Rajvir 2009-02-24T11:31:14Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180166#M97920 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Basically, I have an egg-shaped 'special object' and what I would like to do is have small spiral shapes protruding from it but at the 'right' angle, as if they're coming from the centre point in the egg, if that makes sense. ie, if I'd drawn an invisible line from one side of the egg over the top of it and finished at the bottom, the spirals would then protrude from this.<BR /> <BR /> How would I go about this? So far I've manged the top one, heh, but I've no idea how to do the rest.<BR /> <BR /> Forgive me if this post is terribly nonsensical, I'm not very good with maths-y stuff!</T></DIV> Tue, 23 May 2023 14:56:43 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180166#M97920 Anonymous 2023-05-23T14:56:43Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180167#M97921 Can you post a sketch of what you want ?<BR /> <BR /> Edit : add a signature to your profile with your AC version &amp; system info, see mine for example. <BR /> Hint : click profile button besides register button on top of this page for signature. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:31:14 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180167#M97921 Shivang Rajvir 2009-02-24T11:31:14Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180168#M97922 I will do that now. While waiting for a response, I had a little play about myself but I'm doing it all manually so it's taking a very long time. I will upload what I've done so far in a moment to give you an idea of what I want. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:37:44 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180168#M97922 Anonymous 2009-02-24T11:37:44Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180169#M97923 Okay, bear in mind I'm very new to this! Here's a rough idea of what I want, the right side looks better, I'd like all the spirals to be facing the same way.<BR /><IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11411iB5251F894374E99F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" border="0" alt="thing.JPG" title="thing.JPG" /> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:48:36 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180169#M97923 Anonymous 2009-02-24T11:48:36Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180170#M97924 To get you started, in the library under SPECIAL OBJECTS there is a Spiral object. It has parameters which allow you to rotate the object around the X and Y axis. You could add a parameter to rotate it around the Z axis.<BR /> <BR /> A better solution is to use Ralph Wessel's Objective, it is free for students.<BR /> <A href="http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html" target="_blank">http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html</A> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:51:19 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Would-I-use-rotate-a-copy-to-achieve-this/m-p/180170#M97924 Erika Epstein 2009-02-24T16:51:19Z