Now I will enter the 360 value in the Angle box. You can see it makes a copy of this chair at some angle now hit Enter button of the keyboard for making a copy of this chair. Now hold the Ctrl button of the keyboard and rotate this chair at some angle, or you can enter the value of the angle in the Angle box, which is at the bottom of the working screen. Make sure the chair is selected before assigning the center to rotate the tool. I will rotate this chair around this center line so take Rotate tool from the tool panel.Īnd make a click on the center of this circular table where I made a line for assigning center point to rotate tool. The very important thing before doing array is that if you want array component on the same around of the object around which you want to rotate your chair component, then first match the rounds of both components by using the move tool of the tool panel.Īfter adjusting this chair according to the circular table, I will take a Pencil tool from the tool panel and draw a line like this at the center of this table. Now I will place it anywhere on the ground by making a click. I am just using the online component for explaining to you about the array. You can take your own component for this purpose.
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So for having a chair component, I will go to an online library of this software which is 3D Warehouse, and you will find it at the scroll-down list of the Window menu of the menu bar.
I will make many copies of this chair and use an array to place those copies at an equal angle around this table. Now let us have a chair which I will place around this circular table. I will choose Wood from the drop-down list of the material bar.Īnd I add two different wood materials to this table like this by selecting each part of this component one by one. Let us fill wood material to it and for that go to Materials bar which is at the right side of the working window. Now I will take the Move tool from the tool panel and move the top surface of this component by holding the Alt key of the keyboard to copy this surface.Īnd move back to this copied surface at the top of this component. Go to the tool panel, take the Push/Pull command, and add some height to this circle like this. Now take the selection tool from the tool panel and select this circle by clicking on it. You can draw it with a specific dimension. I have drawn it freehand that means with no particular dimension. So for that, take the circle tool from the tool panel, or you can press C as a shortcut key of this tool.
You can understand it as a circular center table. Now let us understand Array in this software, and for that, I will create a circular object. On the left side of this window, there is some bar such as Materials bar, components bar, and so on, and these bars accomplish different types of work in this software. Then, at the center of this user interface, we have our working window on which we can see our work. Below this menu bar, you can find a toolbar/tool panel that you can adjust according to you. So at the top of the User interface, there is a Menu bar with a number of sub-menus through which we can do a number of settings and adjustments in this software. 3D animation, modelling, simulation, game development & othersīefore it starts to tell you about this command/features of this software, I would like to tell you about some sections of the User interface of this software to understand my wording throughout this article.