Intersection-male/female fiberglass mould/product
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hi. i make fiberglass molds. I've drawn a male mold, made up of a number of components, to form a shower base and waste. is it possible to "drape" a 5mm layer over my mold, creating my female shower base skin, and then move it away and trim it and add strengthening and feet to display a final product. alternatively can i intersect it(mold) with a solid cube and then separate the two of them and edit them as required??
while i'm at it, have exploded a cylinder that was part of a component and i cant dimension the diameter because its been blown into segments. can i make those 24 line segments forming the end of the cylinder, back into a dimentionable circle??
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@gull said:
while i'm at it, have exploded a cylinder that was part of a component and i cant dimension the diameter because its been blown into segments. can i make those 24 line segments forming the end of the cylinder, back into a dimentionable circle??
Unfortunately you can't do that once exploded it loses all the circle info it had.
@gull said:
hi. i make fiberglass molds. I've drawn a male mold, made up of a number of components, to form a shower base and waste. is it possible to "drape" a 5mm layer over my mold, creating my female shower base skin, and then move it away and trim it and add strengthening and feet to display a final product. alternatively can i intersect it(mold) with a solid cube and then separate the two of them and edit them as required??
Is it possible for you to select the faces and copy them out of the component. Then use the joint push/pull to creat the 5 mm thickness?
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@gull said:
while i'm at it, have exploded a cylinder that was part of a component and i cant dimension the diameter because its been blown into segments. can i make those 24 line segments forming the end of the cylinder, back into a dimentionable circle??
gull, take a look at the link below to a ruby created by Chris Fullmer. This will help you find the centerpoint of any curve. While you're at it take a look at all of Chris' rubys, it is quite an impressive toolbox.
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HI Gull, hi folks.
A quick way to find the center of an exploded circle is to trace a diameter between facing endpoints. The midpoint of this line is the centerpoint of the circle. Use it and one of the endpoint on the exploded circle to redraw a new circle. Its geometry will overlapp the segments of the exploded circle. You will not have these in double, dont worry. Delete the diameter and then you can use the Dimension Tool to get the diameter or radius of the circle.
Just ideas.
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