0006 Blender Joining and Seperating objects Video Lecture | Learn 3D Modelling: The Ultimate Blender Guide - Software Development

all right now the next thing often asked
by students is how do you duplicate how
do you move how do you join well not
join because you didn't know what join
was but there's a lot of common
questions at this point usually in a
classroom so let's look at duplicate
first if you grab this box in object
mode and hit shift D and then right
click I can now move this object out and
I have two of them again click it on
with the left mouse button shift D right
click click and drag you can hold shift
and highlight several objects and hit
shift D right click move just like that
and you can imagine you can quickly
build up a wall or whatever now if you
want these objects to function or share
components right now I have to click on
each one and hit tab to get into the
components also you can look over here
and you'll see that the are in fact
separated there's six of them altogether
if I hold shift and highlight each one
all the way across notice that the
circle turns orange over here and then I
can go to object and join them I now
have one and underneath that I have the
vertex group and the material but I can
never get to the each individual one in
object mode now so if I'm an advocate
this is an object I can't separate it in
object mode in edit mode I can however
if I hit tab again let's say I want this
cube if I hover over the top of it and
hit L I'll highlight the entire object
as long as it's separated via component
in other words if I had two vertices
that were touching and joined together
this would not work so L allows me to
highlight object
off clicking allows me to deselect them
if I want this one separated now I have
to go like this l over the top of it
mesh vertices separate selection now if
you hit tab again you'll find that in
object mode you have now two cubes
well these cubes which are joined in
this cube separated but if you look the
point is over here now the center point
so immediately after you unjoin
something you have to go to transform
and say origin to geometry this will
place the origin point back into the
middle of the geometry where you can now
move rotate and scale it from the center
of that object okay so that is joining
and separating in itself done so often
it's pathetic so please take time before
you go on to try that out join a couple
objects together separate them out and
then meet me in the next video