Copying lines to other faces and a few other things.
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Hey guys. Haven't been here in a while (old name was Dreamube017) but I'm getting back into Sketchup.
I've created a cube and did some nice detailing on one side of it. It'd be great if I could copy the lines from that side and put them on the other sides so that all the faces would be cut correctly. I have a few extrudes on it as well.
So basically I want to take all the modeling I did on one side of the cube, and copy it to the others. How would I do that?
Also, is there a way to do loop cuts? Thanks.
Oh one more thing... sorry. Is there a way to make surfaces created with curves smoother after they've been created?
Thanks again.
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Hi,Dreamcube:
The first question could be handled this way: Select the linework or other on the face to be copied. Orbit so that you can see a top face. Select the protractor tool or press Q. Position the tool icon at the center of the face with inferencing at the midpoints of adjacent edges. Click and mouse over the edge above the selected work click and rotate it to the adjacent side then type x3 to copy the other sides. -
Thansk for the reply. I am trying to jsut rotate it, but I jsut want it to tturn on one axis and It keeps rotating all these different ways. I know I select a flat surface for the rotating tool, but even so, it still goes wrong. I wish I could just control it on one axis like in other 3D applications.
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You may need to disable angle snapping and probably length snapping. Window>Model Info> Units> uncheck length snapping and angle snapping.
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Hm I thought I posted this, but anyhow, thanks I got it working.
However, now I'm having an extrude issue.
See those extruded curves on the left? I want to do the same with those on the right, but I guess things can't move along curved surfaces.
I was thinking maybe I should pull them off and extrude them then add them into the model with those boolean operations, but I can't figure out how to pull it apart.
Any suggestions on either seperating the plane and curves on the right or at least how to extrude them to get the same effect I'm trying to get on the left? Thanks.
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No, you can't extrude into a curve like that. Your best bet would be to take the single side that you have successfuly extruded, make it a group, then get rid of everything else.
You then need to duplicate that group around all the other sides of the cube...even though the extrusions will overlap. Then, explode all those groups, select all the geometry and from the r-click menu, intersect it with itself.
You are then faced with a lovely little clean-up job, deleting all the faces you don't want.
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