How to remove part of a Circle?

Ralphxyz

Damm I am having to think six steps ahead of where I am working in order to do things

I had a bolt hole in my project so then I wanted to recess the bolt head.

Now how do I remove the circle down to the bottom of the bolt head?

I can see where I should have done this at least 6 steps before I made the original circle (hole).

Thanks, so far all of the help has been right on and I am starting to get working with SetchUp.

Ralph

Dave R

Are you trying to make a hexagonal recess? If so, you should be able to just push the hexagon with the hole in it down to the bottom of the recess using Push/Pull. Somehow it appears you've already got a face at the bottom of the recess, though. So you could select the wall of the hole and the hexagon at the bottom of the recess, right click and run Intersect Faces>With Selection. Then delete the circle you have highlighted and the hexagonal face skinning the hole.

Jean Lemire

Hi Ralph, hi folks.

The nice part with SketchUp (SU) is that you can easily fix problems in some cases.

Click in sequence on the scenes tabs of this SU file for ideas, to illustrate Dave's idea, I think.

Hexagonal recess for bolt head.skp

gilles

There are strange things in your model that you should repair.

Ralphxyz

Well I could not get "Intersect Faces>With Selection" to work, which isn't surprising it has taken me two or three days to get most things to work.

But I did have a relatively easy answer.

I removed/deleted the hexagon and the hole then redrew the hexagon and pushed it to it's depth and then redid the circles drawn on the hexagon face and pushed the circle to the bottom.

Now a funny thing was from the Top view I could see through the bolt holes to my background but when viewed from the bottom there were no circles/holes!

So I drew the circles on the bottom and pushed the holes through.

Well there ya go, learning more every day. My 3D printer "should" ship around the end of March so hopefully I'll have some good models to print by then.

Thanks for the great help,

Ralph

Dave R

Ralph,

I'd love to see your model at this point and to see what it is you're having trouble with. It shouldn't take you days to get any of this stuff to work. It makes me think we could manage to sort a few things out with a little focused effort and you'd be on your way to much less painful progress. We could do as we did before if you want.

gilles

If you want to print it in 3D you will need a solid and it does not seem to be one.
Try Solid inspector (Thomthom) and Solidsolver (TIG)

voljanko

And don't forget to check it with susolid plugin.