Cutting out a silhouette

[Paris]

This seems to be my day for questions.
I need to cut out windows in a silhouette shape. Suggestions.
Thx.

[solo]

Using 'draw line on surface' from the 'surface tools' ruby will make the job a lot quicker and easier.

[Paris]

What took you so long, Solo!
So, do you think i should take my silhouette (a gogo dancer) and paste it to the wall, then trace it and push it through?

[solo]

You could make it a .png face me billboard.

[Paris]

Not sure if I made myself clear.
What i want to do is make a window shaped like a gogo dancer.

[solo]

Oh!

Then yes, trace and pull.

[Paris]

@solo said:

Oh!

Then yes, trace and pull.

I pasted the silhouette on the wall, traced with draw freehand, then pushed it through. Now I'm going to duplicate the wall, create a transparent middle bottle glass textured window and sandwich it in the middle.

[sorgesu]

???

1. get a picture of a go go dancer and import into sketchup.

2. Size it so the picture is the size of the window that you want.

3. Position the picture where you might want the window to go relative to your surface but a distance in front.

4. Explode the image.

5. Carefully draw edges around the shape of the go go dancer in your image file until you have a closed shaped outline and surface of said dancer. Also ensure that you have a rectagle shape drawn on the surface outside of the shape.

6. Push pusll the shape that you created through your surface.

7. Select the surface and the push pulled form and "intersect with model"

8. Erase the form and it's edges leaving the 'intersected" outline on your surface. Erase the surface of the window or push pull it in for an indent. This can work with a wall thickness too if you erase the forms push pulled on either side of the window but leave the bit inside the wall thickness.

Is this what you were getting at?

[Paris]

Susan,
That's pretty much how I did it.
The first time the wall was 6" thick and the push-thru became convoluted, so I reduced the thickness to an inch and it worked perfectly. I then created a glass panel using an amber 60's bottle glass pattern. Duped the cutout wall and sandwiched the glass. Looks great when you look thru the silhouette window into the set model. Now all I have to do is build it.

Thanks.

Solo thanks too.

[solo]

I assume this is kinda what you wanted.

[Paris]

@solo said:

I assume this is kinda what you wanted.

There you gogo solo.