Cutting floor boards out of a cylinder

Dave R

So since you have the planks drawn and cut, try it this way:

Lay out the circles for the holes on the edge of a plank.
Select them and Ctrl+C copy.
Use Push/Pull to push in the the holes to depth.
Close the first plank and open the neighbor.
Click on Edit>Paste in place.
While the pasted circles are still selected, use Move-Copy to copy them to the opposite edge of the plank.
Return to the first edge of this plank and push in the holes.
On the second edge, add or subtract holes as needed.
Select and Ctrl+C copy the circles.
Push in the the holes.
Open the next plank and go up to step 5 and repeat.

There's a cool plugin from Wudworx that would make this a lot easier but I would suggest that you learn this with the native tools first.

pilou

So if your plank are strictly "box plank" maybe Slice v5 by Tig will be a cool friend! ?
(but without an image of one of your plank...maybe i am wrong

No plank to draw!!!
Just draw a disc then and the plug make all the rest!

At the end if you want that each different plank must be a component oe a group there are plugins for automatically made that!

Dave R

Pilou, Slicer is nice for a lot of things but I don't think it is the right option for this. The OP clearly stated the planks are of varying widths and he wants the ends cut to the radius of the cylinder. Slicer only makes constant width slices and doesn't retain the radiused ends.

Disk made with Circle and Push/Pull as you suggest.

After running Slicer.

mitcorb

Will you be showing the dowel pattern here?

pilou

Ah damned, I am disappointed!
So TIG must improve his plugin!

pilou

So my try
The two "one line" must be a "real one line" written inside the Ruby Console !
Face on Component by TIG

m=Sketchup.active_model;n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e);g.to_component.definition.name="Face#1")if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

Thickness of a component By SDmitch

mod=Sketchup.active_model;sel=mod.selection;sel.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance).each{|c| c.definition.entities.each{|f|(f.pushpull -10;break) if f.class==Sketchup;;Face}}

Selection Toy by Thomthom

Inverse selection by TIG

Radial Move by CPlassais

PS Maybe following your version of SU when you "Explode all" , Faces are not trimed by segments ?
So Select all / Intersect Selected

Dave R

Anything to keep from using the native tools.

pilou

Not sure you can easily take away pieces between them without plugin!
For ten pieces maybe but for 100 ?

jkordzi

Thanks. I've finished the floor boards (yes I put it down for a while). Now I've got a lot of dowel holes in the planks w/ no dowels. Making a dowel is easy, but how would you suggest I insert a copy of it into each of the holes? Is there some way of doing this quickly and accurately?

Dave R

Make the dowel a component and set its origin and axis alignment so you can simply drop the components in to place. Did you use even spacing between holes? Could you either post the model or at least a screen shot in X-ray mode so we can see the arrangement of the holes??