Making components cut double skin walls

Ston

Hi All

I have been trying to make my windows and doors cut through both skins of a wall using the Cutting_windows ruby from the ruby library depot and I am not having any success. It says not enough points please retry when I click on my fourth point ( the instructions say click on 4 points then the first point again to seal the deal ) can anybody give me guidance on what I may be doing wrong or another way of making my components cut through the walls

Thanks for any advice

Ston

Ston

I found this tut by Gaieus http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=744&p=4261#p4261 on work a rounds but is anybody able to tell me if the ruby mentioned above works the way I hope it does i.e create a window and then use the window to make it and all its clones cut double face walls

Thanks for any info

Didier Bur

Yes it does.

Gaieus

Hi Ston,

Basically there are two different things here. Components that "seem" to cut holes do not really cut those holes (i.e. there is no new geometry created to surround the hole). They jsut create a see through effect. I was working around this in that tutorial.

Another method could be to manually Push/Pull those holes through and thus create real holes with real geometry.

What the plugin does is - practically speaking - to automate this latter method.

Ston

Thanks Didier and Gaieus for your responses,

I am trying to work with Didier's Ruby but I am not having any luck. To check things I decided to make a standard window component with a single face cutting properties. I am not sure if one of the recent Rubies that I have installed is causing a problem but I cant get the new simple component to cut a single face ?? I have attached an example if you would be kind enough to have a look. The smaller window that I created is not cutting the larger one was imported and works fine. I have checked the component axis and they match the larger window so I am stumped at the moment

Thanks for any help

Ston

Window not cutting.skp

Gaieus

Hi Ston,

It's a well made component - it DOES cut the hole. You should only edit the component and either delete its front face (which now "covers" the hole) or make it transparent a bit like some glass.

Ston

Gaieus

Thanks for the info, I have made cutting components several times in the past but I just forgot I needed to delete the selection I guess old age is scrambling my brain

Ston

Gaieus

I could only guess so quickly because it's happened to me a couple of times, too!