Join Tool?
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I asked this in the sketchup forum, but figured it is more fitting in the ruby forum
There are two seperate objects not grouped, one a vertical 2x4 and one a horizontal 2x4, they are placed to join in the middle but in sketchup the intersecting lines show, as they should if you place one board into the joint of another, but what if you decide it is going to be one piece of wood or metal and wanted those lines at the intersection to disappear as to make a seamless piece of material in the chape of a plus sign. Is there a Join tool someone has designed to do this?
A colleague has done this basically to create a glass curtain wall with aluminum mullions about the size of a 2x4, and at each intersection there are overlapping lines but the client upon seeing this wants to see it without the intersecting lines.
Anyone have an idea?Eric
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@autokidd said:
the client upon seeing this wants to see it without the intersecting lines.
I'm not visualizing exactly what you describe, but you can hide edges in SU by shift-clicking with the eraser tool. (BTW, if an object is used repeatedly in a model, you should make it a component.)
-Steve
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Assuming that the frame pieces don't need to be kept as separate components, you could use deletecoplanaredges after exploding the components of the frame. If you do need to keep the parts separated then hiding the edges would work. To make that work correctly though, you would need to split the long edges so you can hide the edge where the joining piece meets it without hiding the rest.
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The delete Coplanar edges seems to be the idea, but im not sure how to implement that, do you have a download for a ruby tool?
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Click on the link in my previous post. Save the file with the extension rb in the Plugins folder.
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