How to extrude from angle to plane?
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Hi, not exactly a SketchUp or SketchUcation newbie (mostly lurking here), but this one has me stumped. I'm sure the answer is simple but I've searched and can't find a suitable answer.
Imagine you have two square table legs that are angled to each other (splayed from the table top). Now, what I'm trying to do is extrude a section from the middle of one leg to the middle of the other, BUT, obviously, staying parallel to the ground. What's happening is the extrusion is going off parallel to the LEG. Now, somewhat of a work-around is to extrude it and then move the face so that the extrusion becomes parallel to the ground, but hampering this not ideal method is the fact that once the extrusion goes "into" or close to the other leg trying to move that extrusion becomes next to impossible...
I'm hoping that I'm just being dumb and that someone will say "just hold this key down while you extrude it and you can stay parallel to any plane..." but I can't find any such information anywhere.
Thanks,
Glenn -
By the sounds of it you should first of all make the legs either groups or a component. It isn't to clear what your geometry looks like but I would create the rail independently as another group, then move it up to the right location, if you make the rail so it is longer than the gap between the legs you can then open the group for editing and "intersect with model". This will allow you to trim the surplus off the rail. Job done?
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Glenn, Check out my Project Beam plugin.
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Fredo6's Vector push pull will allow you to select the vector (direction) of the extrusion (in this case the ground plane). You will have to do an Intersect to allign the final face with the other leg however...
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Much appreciated for all the great help. I don't feel so dumb in that there wasn't really an easy answer I wasn't getting...
@cotty - that is exactlywhat I was trying to do in your image!
Glenn
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Second tool of Curviloft by Fredo6 make exactly that!
minute 3: 31
[flash=420,315:3m5c55p0]http://www.youtube.com/v/AZnVY3unWPU[/flash:3m5c55p0]
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@unknownuser said:
Second tool of Curviloft by Fredo6 make exactly that!
A little pushbutton with so much power behind...
I found another short video from Fredo6 exactly for this question: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28586&start=30#p248438
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yes in moving now
Curviloft by Fredo6 -
Hi folks.
If the bar between the 2 leg has a rectangular or square cross section, it can be done quickly. See attached SU file for ideas.
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