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How to Make Multi User Objects Single User?

I duplicated a few objects with Alt+D and now I want to apply some modifiers to them, however I can't, because they are multi-user objects. I tried U > Objects but I still can't apply the modifier. How to make multi user objects single user?
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Making a Laser in Cycles - Straight Beam of Light?

I am modeling a laser pointer in Blender, but I am not sure how to make the laser's light beam. The Spot light comes the closest to what I am looking for, but its starting diameter is 0, and you cannot set the spread amount to less than 1 degree.…
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How can I use an array modifier to create individually manipulatable objects?

I often use an array modifier (or two) to quickly create a grid of identical or symmetric objects, which can be really useful when modeling all sorts of man-made objects. Once I've made the grid, though, is there any way for me to make it so that…
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Cut straight lines with knife tool

How can I get the knife tool to snap to the same spot on another edge to get a straight cut. Here is an example of what I want to do: When the line turns green the cut is straight. How can I do this in blender? I have tried using the magnet…
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How to round corners of plane?

How can I cut an arc into a square plane? The gif above shows what I want to do, but, in another software.
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Camera to user view?

Let's suppose we have a medium-poly mesh, and we want to snapshot several different closeups by just flying in the camera or using the user's perspective to flyover. Is there a keyboard shortcut for adding a camera to the user's current view without…
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How to create a custom UI?

I was watching this video on making a custom UI tab using Python, and in the line from bpy.types import Menu, Panel, UIList, I see the names of objects that look like they can all be used to make different UI elements. Does bpy.types contain all the…
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Snap object on top of surface of other object

How do you snap an object on top of the surface of another object? I tried using the shrinkwrap modifier but that produced weird results. If I have a cone, and a cube - I want to move the cone around so that it snaps perfectly along the faces of the…
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Can Blender render animated gifs?

I need to save an animation as an animated GIF. Can this be done from Blender? cheers.
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How to render an animation as video in Blender?

Yesterday I was working on a simple animation, an animated logo. Here is an image of the progress: I already have the animation working and everything is okay with the project, but I can't figure out how I can render the animation and turn it into…
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Why is it important to apply transformation to an objects data?

I've watched several tutorials and very often they applied the location, rotation or scale to the object when they transformed it in Object Mode. They always said it is important, but why?
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How can curves be converted to meshes?

Is is possible to remove the curves and only have the mesh of a tree that was created with the saplings add-on? I'd like to apply a decimate modifier to have a few low-poly trees, but this doesn't work because of the curves. I get this message:…
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How do I animate time?

I have created a storyboard where I frequently switch between slow-motion and normal motion. The scene involves a particle system, several animated objects and an animated camera. How do I animate time for all objects globally? If possible I would…
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Setting the pivot point of an object

I have a sword that currently rotates around a pivot point thats off of the actual object. Im new to blender and im not sure how i would go about changing it so that the sword rotates around the handle. Any help would be appreciated!
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Make Blender usable on high resolution screen

The Blender UI elements are incredibly small by default on high resolution screens on Windows (15" UHD screen). I found the Preferences -> System -> DPI setting which can be set up to 144. This makes Blender usable, but still uncomfortable and…
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