Need help with holes

dammerel · 29 May 2008, 10:31

Hi guys
I need some help with punching holes thru a face
any hints? is there a ruby tool to help
I seems a bit hit and miss some times

Andrew

Gaieus · 29 May 2008, 10:34

Hi Andrew,

What kind of face do you want to cut a whole in? With a "normal" (i.e. single) face it should be pretty easy; just draw the shape of the hole you want to "punch" and delete the inside face.

With a curved surface you can extrude the shape you want to cut through the surface, select all and right click > intersect with model (or selected). Now deleting unwanted geometry will get you there.

Note that intersecting always works in the context (i.e. within a group) you are working in.

solo · 29 May 2008, 10:42

Supplying an image for us to understand will make things a lot easier to help you.

dammerel · 29 May 2008, 10:45

Hi Gaieus
Yep just a normal face with thickness but real thin 1.6mm sheet metal
As I said, sometimes its works and sometime not.. I guess its hard to push-pull a "hole"

dammerel · 29 May 2008, 10:48

example attached

holes.skp

dylan · 29 May 2008, 11:03

Andrew I downloaded your example and it does work perfectly.
If I draw shapes on the surface, push pull works exactly as it should do each time.

I switched on Color By Axis to check you had coplaner lines and everything is ok.
There is no reason why this should not work in SU.

Are you saying sometimes you can push through and other times not?
If you place the push/pull selection tool on screen against the drawn shape, does it select/highlite the shape drawn ok?

dammerel · 29 May 2008, 11:14

Dylan

Have a look at the attached, this is what happens

Andrew

holes.skp

Gaieus · 29 May 2008, 11:35

Yeah, what James says. You can PP further but if you stop at the bottom face, it will cut a hole. You can easily inference with the bottom line or any of the endpoints. When one hole is made, you can then double click on the other shapes and they will PP with the exact same amount.

dammerel · 29 May 2008, 11:41

ahh double click..thats the trick thanks

remus · 29 May 2008, 11:55

There was a ruby out there that did this for you, although i lost it when i upgraded my computer. I think it was called hole.rb, but when i tried looking for it under that name i got something different. Anyone else remeber this ruby?

watkins · 29 May 2008, 19:31

Dear Remus,

It is a Rick Wilson script called holes.rb. I looked for it in the Ruby Library Depot (it is still listed there under Edit), but it is no longer available. This usually means that it has moved to Smustard, but it wasn't there either.

Regards,
Bob

PRSS · 2 Jun 2008, 17:23

Hello

Here is the holes.rb script. Also I have attached opener.rb which also does the same thing. I think it is from Smustard - I do not remember. But I use this extensively to cut holes.
Makes holes
This also makes holes

Hope this helps

With best regards
PRSS