Crop a group by the contours of an area
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Dear all
I have a group of areas:
Then I have an area:
How can I crop the group to fit into the area to get this:
I am drawing a floor plan of our new footway tho show to the gardener, how exactly he should put the stones: (the red / yellow areas should be filled with the pattern (in different angles and different sizes).
Since this filling pattern needs to have an exact size (each stone needs to be exactly drawn in the right size), I think that I cannot use a material to fill the area (because this would be an image, on which I can not influence exactly the size, angle, position...)
Does anybody have a solution for that?
Thanks in advance,- Adrian
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To do what you show in your first three images, select the edges of the "area" and copy them with Ctrl+C, Command-C, etc. Next, open the group for editing and use Edit>Paste in place to paste the copied selection into the group. Assuming your model is 2D as you've shown, you should then be able to simply delete the part of the group outside the pasted edges.
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Thank you Dave; Well, that is the way I performed it for the screen shots. But however, this is not very handy. I thought that there is an easier way like intersect two groups or something like that.
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There is an Intersect Faces command but you'd have to have faces whose intersection would form a line (or lines). Two coplanar faces intersect at more than a line.
I suppose you could Push/Pull the area box into a 3D shape and then open the brick work and run Intersect Faces>With Model. Then you could delete the waste outside the intersection.
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Badera
You could orient the brick hatch over the area(s)and drape the brick hatch.
(this will not preserve the hatch in a group)
Charlie -
Thank you CHARLIE__V for your idea. What I do not understand: I installed the Hatch Faces plugin (V1.8) and I can now successfully hatch faces - but I do not understand how to select "brick" hatch and how to orient it. Could you make some screenshots ore point me to somewhere I can see what you mean?
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@badera said:
Thank you CHARLIE__V for your idea. What I do not understand: I installed the Hatch Faces plugin (V1.8) and I can now successfully hatch faces - but I do not understand how to select "brick" hatch and how to orient it. Could you make some screenshots ore point me to somewhere I can see what you mean?
Badera,
I did not mention the use of hatch faces plugin........I was simply referring to the hatch you show in your original post.If you orient that hatch you show above your contours area...making sure it fully covers the area to be draped....then simply drape the linework(hatch) onto your countour area(s).
Make sense?
Charlie
Edit:
Quick Example attached..........& Note: You may have to Drape 2x if the hatch does not fully transfer.......IOW you may have a few missing lines.....simply drape again and these should correct.......not ideal I know.
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Thanks CHARLIE__V, now it is clear. It is the best way... (Strange, these errors in the resulting patterns - but I can live with it...)
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