How to Duplicate and Link Objects in Blender

How to duplicate objects in Blender? How to create linked duplicates? Linked duplicates are objects that share data which means if we edit one, we edit all of them. I'll show you how to duplicate an object with and without linked data. We will cover the different Blender shortcuts for duplicating and linking objects.

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[amsrremix]

Thank you for keeping it quick and to the point.

[fredrik]

Does anyone realize how great this video actually is? It is short, easy to understand and strait to the point.

[dronefootage]

no annoying intro, no bla bla bla, straight to the point, what a great video and thanks! didn't realize it was that simple :D

[gregoryhirsh]

Man I love it when content creators are able to explain a how to in 30 seconds : ) Thank you for this!

[JulesHatton]

Brilliant! Every tutorial should be like this, instead of 15 minutes...

[skyrod]

Thx god finally someone who directly give the solution🙏

[adadventure]

thanks so much, just what i needed. so useful. keep up the great work!

[allenmarklun]

thank you so much im making a sonic model and its SO MUCH easier to do this thanks a lot and you got yourself a new subrciber :)

[anhgels]

thank youu this works, for some reason my copied objects are not acting as individual objects and regular paste causes some spooky behaviours

[AnkyTrike]

Thank you, I am making a tree right now so thanks!!!

[andreadardi]

Hi, thank you for the good video, but i have a question.
How can i male the modification in specular way?
If i do alt+d and i change the right side of the mash the copy will be modificated on the left

[Estudiante-musico-con-hobbies]

Hay alguna forma de hacerlo sin duplicar los objetos?

[yylijum]

how to do that for multiple strokes within the same object?

[MrHexographer]

how come after i make the copy, i move the duplicate object and it immediately rescales smaller once the anchor point leaves the boundaries of the original object?

[joelprestonsmith]

These short, straight-to-the-point videos are fantastic. But for this one, I'm a little confused. When you talk about linking objects, you have only one object selected. You alter it, and THEN talk about linking to a series of duplicates, which aren't selected, but they magically change in relation to the original object when you alter that one. I think there's a step missing. Maybe one in which you select ALL the objects and THEN perform a step that links them.

[GabrielSoaresALife]

The Shortcut is Alt+D, not Shift+D. To me work like that.

[animatorgear_]

I have watched a video that took 10min to explain it u did it in half min