Scale 1000 Piles
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I need some help, thanks in advance for your time.
I am trying to scale bottoms of 1000 piles (as same component) down onto an uneven surface with top of all piles at the same level. I wonder how I can do this efficiently without scale every pile one by one.
I know plug-in like ‘drop to intersections on nearest Z’ but this plug-in won’t work as I want all piles ‘top at same level.
So, any brilliant ideas?
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Hi Max,
Scale and Drop (which is basically a Move) are not the same thing. Which do you mean?
If you meant move each Instance so their tops are aligned, you could use the Drop plug-in if you flipped the entire model up-side down and used a temporary target face to drop to.
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@jim said:
Hi Max,
Scale and Drop (which is basically a Move) are not the same thing. Which do you mean?
If you meant move each Instance so their tops are aligned, you could use the Drop plug-in if you flipped the entire model up-side down and used a temporary target face to drop to.
you know, like piles in marinas holding up all the walk ways, the top of these piles are all at the same level, where the bottoms on the sea bed are not.
plus, I am trying to have all different heights piles as one component,so i think i have to scale them down to the ocean floor?
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I can't express my appreciations to you TIG. Thanks
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I have a script called scale2face.rb that stretches selected components/groups up to touch selected faces above them - used for elongating columns etc up to the underside of sloping roofs etc etc...
Here's a reworked version 'scaledown2face.rb' that scales them downwards...
(c) TIG 2009
scaledown2face.rb
Usage: Select face(s) & group/component-instance(s) located ABOVE face(s).
Unacceptable selections produce error dialogs
Pick 'ScaleDown2Face' off the Plugins Menu
or type scaledown2face in the Ruby Console.
The selected items will be scaled downwards [in the Z] until their CLs meet the face or faces.
Any intermediate faces etc are ignored; the scaling passes through them.
It has a one step undo.
Version: 1.0 20091201 First Release [based on scale2face].For the Plugins folder...
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