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I made a regular polyhedron - let's say a octahedron - and (again for simplicity) a pyramid whose base face is congruent to the face of the polyhedron.

Now my question is: How can I "glue" a copy of the pyramid on every face of the tetrahedron? (such that the tip is pointing outward?)

Here an example of the two example objects (on the left) and the "desired" result (on the right), but in this one I attached the pyramid manually (very badly, as you can see). They point in all kinds of directions, but not really away from the octahedron.

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I tried finding suitable modifiers, but without success.

PS: I'm aware of this question but that does not apply here, as the actual objects I want to glue to the faces are a little bit more complicated.

EDIT1: I just found the Object > Duplication > Faces menu which is getting me a step closer, but then then all duplicates are still facing the same direciton as the original.

EDIT2: Using the Duplication > Faces method the spikes still do not end up in the correct orientation as I stated already in EDIT1. It looks about like this now (I enlarged the octahedron just just to separate the pyramids a little bit):

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EDIT3: It seems I can do it with the generic objects, but not wich my own. I added a file: In this case the "cut of cube" should be placed on the faces of the tetrahedron. The cutting plane on the cube exactly matches the faces of the tetrahedron:

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Let's say you have an octahedron and a gear and you want to have a gear on each of the faces of the octahedron.

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Select the gear, then shift select the octahedron (so that both are selected but the octahedron is the active object)

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Then press CtrlP and select parent to vertex.

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Set the duplication to faces.

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The advantege of this is that both objects remain editable, and chhanges on the duplicated object will be applied to each one of the instances. Once you are happy with the results you can Make Duplicates Real by pressing Ctrl+Shift+A

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Both objects must be at a common origin.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for your answer, that is what I've tried, unfortunately this still doesnt solve the problem of the orientation of the glued on pieces (see EDIT2) $\endgroup$
    – flawr
    Apr 10, 2017 at 8:12
  • $\begingroup$ both objects have to be at a common origin $\endgroup$
    – user1853
    Apr 10, 2017 at 13:43
  • $\begingroup$ @flawr see edited answera and blend file $\endgroup$
    – user1853
    Apr 10, 2017 at 14:15
  • $\begingroup$ It works when I use two new generic shapes (like a cone and a cube), but it doesn't seem to work if I try to do the same with my own objects. Would you mind taking a glance at the file I uploaded? I just cannot find my mistake, and at this point I believe I did something wrong when creating my objects, but I have no clue. $\endgroup$
    – flawr
    Apr 10, 2017 at 21:49

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