Editing multiple objects at once

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Hi,

What I am trying to solve is that, for example, I have these 8 blades positioned evenly in a circle so they create something like a chopper rotor. Now when I want to scale one end of each blade, I have to do that manually for each one of them. Is there any way to put them into some kind of a group so when I edit one, same editing happens on all of them?

All of the blades are one object, I could make them separate, but I find it best to be one object.

thanks for help

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You can use an array modifier to do this. This Blendercookie video tutorial shows you how (in 2.5).

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wel there are several differt options.

  1. try linked duplication (alt D) all the blades wil be different objects but when you make a change to one of them, all wil change.
    2)try Dupliverts/faces this wil duplicate a child object to al the vert/faces of the parent object. this meens you only need 1 blade
    3)the array modifier ==> note that this will not be handy in your case.
    4)if you’re done with modeling and the only problem is positioning and scaling then you could also use constraints.

personaly i would use option 2 in your case.

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Thx for replies, gonna try out