Making a dogtag chain

# 1 08-11-2003 , 02:12 AM

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I need to make one of the ball chains like the US military uses for their dog tags (seen in link: https://www.kidsidbracelettags.com/im...ili_dogtag.jpg ). Is there an easier/quicker way than making a single sphere, duplicating it, moving it, duplicate, etc? Can one duplicate along a curve?

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# 2 08-11-2003 , 02:22 AM

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There is a script on highend3d.com somewhere called "pathdup", I think?
Try a search for it, I used it ages ago and it worked a treat. It duplicates along a path to your specifications.

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# 3 08-11-2003 , 03:43 AM

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Our own Kbrown created this melscript to help you with the dynamics of this effect:

https://www.simplymaya.com/download_p...id=29&type=mel

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# 4 08-11-2003 , 04:02 AM

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Thanks guys! user added image

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# 5 15-11-2003 , 03:50 PM

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bringing this back up,
i'm trying to use this pathDup script...but i'm not sure if i have the right kind of path... used cv curve to make the path i want it to duplicate along, selected object and then path and ran pathDup, nothing happened. tried changing settings and still couldn't get it to duplicate. am i using the wrong kind of path? nataliia, did you get this to work? if so, what steps did you take? thanks much!

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