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- In article <jgrossD8Mt57.JEu@netcom.com> jgross@netcom.com (John Gross) writes:
- >From: jgross@netcom.com (John Gross)
- >Subject: Re: MODELER Layer Question
- >Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 18:10:18 GMT
-
- >Michael B. Comet (mbc@po.cwru.edu) wrote:
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- >: Question. Is there some way to take all data in several
- >: foreground layers and to merge it into 1 layer?
-
- >Yep, simply select all foreground layers, hit cut and then paste. All
- >data will be pasted into the first active foreground layer. This trick is
- >also veryuseful for mirror and spline patching operations... For example,
- >have your object to be mirrored in a layer past the first, select both an
- >empty layer before the one with the object and the object layer itself.
- >When you do the mirror operation, the new data will be created in the
- >first layer... Same with spline patches to create faces in a layer
- >different from the splines...
-
- >JG
-
- In case it isn't obvious, hold down the shift key while selecting layers to
- select multiple layers. Also, if you do a save while multiple layers are
- selected, all layers are saved to one object file as a single object.
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