Booleans
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Hi all,
I was wondering if there is a shorter way to subtract several groups/components from a different group/component. I am dealing with a woodworking project and need to create bunch of countersunk holes + pilot holes. I created a void for that purpose and used subtract command, but it takes long time to create all of those holes...
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I have need to do this fairly regularly--countersunk screw holes in wood. I dislike the Solid tools for many operations because they convert my components to groups and break relationships. I create a countersunk hole component with its axes set so I can drop the holes in exactly where I want them. I place them on the "board" where I need them to be with the board component open for editing. Then I explode the hole components and delete the skins over the holes as needed. It sounds like a lot of work but it goes quite rapidly and the result is still a component so all the other identical pieces have those same holes in them.
There are other strategies I use that involve creating only part of a board with the holes and copying that part to make the rest but that might just be confusing if you aren't proficient at SketchUp.
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Thank you very much, Dave.
I was wondering if you (or anybody) knows a plugin for that task. -
There's one I know of for drilling holes but it doesn't draw them with countersinks and I found it somewhat difficult to use. It was faster to draw circles and punch the holes with Push/Pull.
An alternative would be to make a component of the screw hole with hole-cutting capability. That would would make it look like there are holes but they wouldn't really be there.
You're Superman, you should be able to do anything without a plugin.
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Yeeah, shooting gamma rays and being super strong do not help in SU, though.
Thank you very much again.
Now, I need to go back to work (as super-boring Clark, of course...) -
just a concept
There are not booleans in V8 Pro ?
So make a tool like this : it's only one solid !
Cylinders can be anything !So you can make somme Boolean differences
Handle can be anything following tastes
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