Duplicate

Mode

Edit and Object Modes

Menu

Object ‣ Duplicate Objects

Hotkey

This will create a visually-identical copy of the selected object(s). The copy is created at the same position as the original object and you are automatically placed in move mode. See the examples below.

This copy is a new object, which shares data-blocks with the original object (by default, all the materials, textures, and F-curves), but which has copied others, like the mesh, for example. That is why this form of duplication is sometimes called “shallow link”, because not all data-blocks are shared; some of them are “hard copied”!

Tip

You can choose which types of data-block will be linked or copied when duplicating in the .

The object was duplicated, using Shift-D. Both these cubes have separate meshes with unique names: and .

See above if you want separate copies of the data-blocks normally linked.