Inseting face?
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The offset tool did the trick! I have another question.. I have a sphere that I want to cut in half,, what would be the best way to go about doing this?
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Turn on hidden geometry and select the half you don't want. Delete the selection.
It would be easier just to make a hemisphere in the first place.
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@dave r said:
Turn on hidden geometry and select the half you don't want. Delete the selection.
It would be easier just to make a hemisphere in the first place.
hmm, I used a plugin to make the sphere and it doesn't seem to have a hemisphere option.. I could have used su's tools, but it creates low poly spheres.
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If you use the Circle tool and Follow Me, you can make it have as many polys as you want.
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I guess i missed the option for changing the # of sides when creating the circle
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It sounds like it.
By the way, if you are going to use Follow Me to create a hemisphere, don't use an arc drawn with the Arc tool to make the path. It won't create a proper hemisphere.
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So are there other ways of creating the hemisphere? How did you do it? It's a little hard to get sketchup to make the other circle standing up.
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@neostyles said:
It's a little hard to get sketchup to make the other circle standing up.
No,it's not. You have not just explored the rotate tool enough. Please, have a look at this page (and especially scroll down to the second animated GIF that looks like this - original by Taff Gogh I think)
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@unknownuser said:
So are there other ways of creating the hemisphere?
You have also solution to load one shape as existing component !
(here a simple Dome)
And you can find tons of geometric figures at 3DWarehouse!
By TaffGoch by example
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@neostyles said:
It's a little hard to get sketchup to make the other circle standing up.
What Gai shows works but I don't even do that. I just orbited the camera to a low viewpoint and, in the example, looking mostly down the green axis. Then SketchUp is happy to draw the circle standing up.
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