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 From:  Michael Gibson
437.11 In reply to 437.10 
> Is it possible to create instances of objects? In other words if you mirror an object
> as an instance what ever you change on the parent changes on the child. My
> apologies if this has been asked before.

Hi Richard - this is possible to a certain extent right now using history.

When you mirror an object, the history of the mirror operation is stored on the result, but by default it does not have updates turned on. Updates are not turned on by default on the results of transforms because updates can sometimes be kind of surprising and get in the way a bit.

But you can enable the update by selecting the resulting mirrored object, and doing Edit/History/Enable updates.

Once you have enabled history updating on an object, whenever you edit the original object the mirror transform will be automatically re-applied and update the mirrored part.

In a simlar manner it is possible to update the results of Transform/Copy, to make a set of copied clones that update when the original is edited.

- Michael