Transform Surface

A transform surface is a copy of the original surface with a different position, rotation, or scale.

Surface created as a transform

Reference

There is no special parameter rollout for transform surfaces. You can later transform the transform surface as a Surface sub-object, and you can animate Surface sub-object transforms.

How To

To create a transform surface:

1. In a NURBS object that contains at least one surface, turn on Transform.
2. To move the transform surface, click and drag the surface you want to duplicate. To rotate or scale the transform surface, click the parent surface, click to turn on Sub-Object in the Modifier Stack rollout, choose Surface from the dropdown list, and then use a transform to rotate or scale the transform surface.

When you use Move to create the transform surface, it simply copies the parent (it doesn’t exaggerate curvature as an offset surface does).