Push/pull import from AutoCAD
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I imported a rectangle with rounded corners from AutoCAD. I can't do anything with the rectangle except erase it. What am I doing wrong?
See attached.
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The imported CAD file has arrived into the model as a component-instance.
Therefore, only editing operations relating to that type of entity are allowed - e.g. erase.
However, another option [if you select it and right-click... OR more simply, you double-click it] is 'Edit'...Once inside the edited 'container' [note that this applies to component-instances and their cousins 'groups'], then you can perform the additional operations that would have been afforded to you within the model's context itself.
Once you are 'editing' the component you can then simply over-draw one of its long edges and it should form a new face.
In your case, because it's all draw at Z=0 that resultant face will be oriented 'downwards'.
If you intend to PushPull that face 'up' then that is OK.
Otherwise you can select the resultant face, right-click > context-menu > Reverse the face, so the orientation in the next process is correct.
But, if you have already inadvertently extruded a wrongly oriented face, then you can select the geometry and use the context-menu to reverse all of it in one step...It's best to keep face orientation correct as you go, otherwise fixing it later on might get painful !
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Drawing that simple faced Rectangle, and then using the Arc tool to fillet one corner, and then repeating it by double-click to the other three corners, would probably be much easier that importing the rather simplistic CAD file ! -
Thanks for the answer. I actually want to use complex shapes that I have drawn in AutoCAD but thought I would start with something very simple.
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@tig said:
PS:
.... and then repeating it by double-click to the other three corners, would probably be much easier ....Repeat multiple actions with double-click - how exactly to do this?
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@tboy said:
@tig said:
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.... and then repeating it by double-click to the other three corners, would probably be much easier ....Repeat multiple actions with double-click - how exactly to do this?[/quote]
video 3:35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWVcLBO3pk -
Thank you!
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