Please help me!!

Support Basics & Interface
#1

Hi guys.

I may be incredibly stupid, but how do I duplicate the spring in the blend bellow? The spring is grouped, and if I add the spring group with shift+a, the duplicated follows the movement of the original. One way is to open another .blend file and append the spring group various times, but that’s a horrible way to do it.
If I use dupligroups the duplicates follow the original, and if I apply the dupligroups the parent-children hierarchy is destroyed, and the spring stops working. Please help me

Just to be clear, what I want is to get various springs, each one independent of the other.
Please help me guys, I’m going crazy:spin::spin::spin:

PS:There is already a thread on this, but since no one even clicked it, I had to create this one with maybe a more “interesting” title. Sorry for the “spam”, but I’m really desperate.

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#2

don’t create linked duplicate

use “shift D” instead of “Alt D”
also make sure that all the spring parts are selectable before you duplicate

#3

God bless you. I hadn’t noticed some parts weren’t selectable in the viewport. And when I selected them in the outliner it gave strange results. Thank you very much man.