Intersection of cylinders
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Hello everybody,
I'm a new user of sketchup 8. I'm french and my job is to create networks of water, under roads. Now, I try to do 3D simulations of these networks.
I drawed 2 cylinders crossing, and now I'd like to delete the part of each one wich are in the intersection. I hope my english is good. Thanks everybody !
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In SU8 you have Solid Tools that would perform this Boolean operation. But you use SU6 so the quickest would be by plugin....
Bool Tools
Or manually by intersecting both volumes via right click. If cylinders are groups/components explode them then select all geometry. Right click and choose intersect with selection. Then delete unwanted.
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Ok you're profile says 6 but your question says 8.
So if geometry is grouped/component use Outer Shell to join each cylinder into one.
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Beaten to it by others........
With v8 Pro there are useful solid tools to do 'boolean' operations like adding/subtracting/splitting two intersecting solids and 'outer-shell' in even non-pro version8...
In any version it's recommended that keep your geometry grouped for the different cylinders etc...
In pre-v8 versions you can select the geometry inside one cylinder and intersect it with the other. Thereby you'll get 'cut' lines added to it and you can then delete the unwanted parts of the geometry...
Repeat for the other cylinder etc...
Tip: while editing groups/components you can 'Hide Rest of Model' under menu iten View > Component Edit... to make it easier to see what you are doing whilst tidying up... -
Hooo thank you very much everybody ! It was so easy and I didn't saw that ! Thanks
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