Diagonal slice through extruded tube?

bingbangbong · 8 Jan 2010, 10:13

Hi there,

I'm Paul from N Ireland, this is my first post!

I'm a designer of musical instruments and I've been using Sketchup for the past couple of months. I've only really had a chance to familiarise myself with it over the Christmas break (it's addictive) but I'm still very much a beginner. Why didn't I find this years ago? - it would have saved my clients putting up with my poor sketching abilities

I'm trying currently to create a tube with an angled cut in it, I have managed to demonstrate the effect using the section plane tool - see attached image, but I'm unsure how I make this a permanent edit.

I've looked through the forum archives and the sketchup help but I'm drawing a blank - I'd appreciate your help and guidance.

Many thanks

Paul

pilou · 8 Jan 2010, 10:25

Yes it's not permanent and make not cut fullface
Just make that
Draw one (or more) simple big Rectangle(s) surface
Select All
Right Click / Intersect Selected
And kill all that you don't want!
SU must be helped in Boolean operations
You are now a musician murderer

Else with plug like Booltools at Smustard you can make that automatically
But it's 10 $

bingbangbong · 8 Jan 2010, 11:19

Merci Pilou,

c'est parfait!

Thank you

Paul