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Figure 7-28
Supports and lamp shade rotating along with support control
5. Select
support2
in the Object Manager and right-click on it; a shortcut menu is displayed.
Choose
Character Tags > Constraint
from the shortcut menu; the
Constraint Expres-
sion [Constraint]
tag is added in the Object Manager and the
Constraint [Constraint]
Settings
area is displayed in the Attribute Manager.
6. Make sure the
Constraint Expression [Constraint]
tag is selected in the Object Man-
ager. Next, in the Attribute Manager, select the
Parent
check box in the
Constraints
area and then choose the
Parent
button, if it is not already chosen. In the
Parent
area,
choose the arrow button next to the
Target
edit box in the
Targets
area; the shape of
the cursor changes. Now, select
center control
in the Object Manager;
center control
is
constrained with
support2
. Now, if you rotate
center control
,
support2
and
lamp shade
will rotate along with it, refer to Figure 7-29.
7. Select
lamp shade
in the Object Manager and right-click on it; a shortcut menu is dis-
played. Choose
Character Tags > Constraint
from the shortcut menu; the
Constraint
Expression [Constraint]
tag is added in the Object Manager and the
Constraint [Con-
straint] Settings
area is displayed in the Attribute Manager.
8. Make sure the
Constraint Expression [Constraint]
tag is selected in the Object Man-
ager Next, in the Attribute Manager, select the
Parent
check box in the
Constraints
area and then choose the
Parent
button; the
Parent
area is displayed.
9. In this area, choose the arrow button next to the
Target
edit box in the
Targets
area; the
shape of the cursor changes. Now, select
lamp control
in the Object Manager;
lamp con-
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