duplicating a surface and making it a child node

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I would like to copy a surface from a rounded cube and make it a child node of the rounded cube. This image depicts what I mean.

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The black square represents the surface that I want to duplicate and add to the cube as a child node. I'm really new to Blender and I appreciate any help I get.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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Duplicate, separate and parent

To get the surface you'll have to duplicate the faces.

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Enable Edit Mode, select the faces you need, duplicate them by pressing shift+d. Your new faces shall now be selected, but they still belong to the cube object.

To separate them press p while the faces are still selected. Choose "Separate" in the pop up menu to tell blender that you want to put those faces in a different object with "selection" criteria.

Now that you have two diffeent object you can parent with hierarchy.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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answered Jul 19 '15 at 10:03

Carlo

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okay that worked great. Where to I set the node hierarchy? – potato Jul 19 '15 at 10:33
See the second paragraph (start from "The 3D view"..) of this related answer – Carlo Jul 19 '15 at 10:48

duplicating a surface and making it a child node

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Duplicate, separate and parent