Components and Instances

Components and Instances are a great tool for modeling because they allow you to create one object and copy it as many times as you like while being able to edit just one entity and updating the rest instantly.

This picture shows some posts that are too thin too print.

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Because these posts are instances I am able to edit one of them and have the rest change automatically.

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This is extremely valuable is you are creating small posts or supports for you model and you find out that they are not thick enough that you can go back and edit just one of the components or instances and they all thicken up at the same time.