Cutting Component
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I am having a bit of a problem. I have a rollup door component that I want to add to a wall and have it cut a whole in the wall for the door. I have watched some videos about creating a component and setting the Cut Opening check box as well as setting the Glue attribute.
Yesterday, I was able to go create a "window" and have it place on virtually any surface and it would automatically cut through the surface. When I tried to set my rollup door component the same way, I could not get it to cut the wall. I have also tried using the Hole Punch plugin and could not get the door to punch through the wall.
This morning, I have tried staring from scratch again, and cannot get things to work properly at all. I went and created a wall 6" thick. I then just drew a simple component of a window with a frame that did not have glass, it just had no surface where the glass would normally be. I set the Glue attribute to Any and I checked the Cut Opening checkbox and saved this as a component named window.
Then I went to the Components window and tried to drag the window component to my wall. First thing that I notice is that when I add the component to the model the component shows up in a horizontal position until I finally connect to the wall. Then I position the window component where I want it on the wall but it does not cut an opening in the wall. I then tried selecting the window component and context selected the Hole Punch plugin but again, not opening was cut for the component.
As I said, yesterday I at least was able to create the window component and get it to work properly. Today I cannot get it to work at all. Must be "one of those days" but I do not see what I am doing wrong.
I am attaching a simple skp file that has both the window component and the roll up door component in hope that someone can "set me straight". This should be very simple and straight forward.
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Your component axes are not set correctly. See the videos. The blue direction should be straight out from the wall (perpendicular to the intended cutting plane). This can be difficult to get right at first, until you get familiar with how it works. When you view the axes of the cutting component the blue axis will show as an "x" that should be flat on the wall face.
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For the door you also need an edge in the component across the bottom for this to work. This edge can be hidden if you don't want to see it in the model. Usually I make a (nested) component of everything contained in the opening component except the closed loop of edges that cause/define the cutting (these cannot be in a nested component). Makes it easier to keep track of the cutting function and the location of the eventual "hole" in the surface. Note that the component will not cut two surfaces. It will only cut one surface of your wall.
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It looks like your door frame is incomplete (review in Monochrome setting). Could make it difficult creating a cutting set of edges. Try starting by drawing rectangle on your wall. select it and make it a cutting component. Remove the face inside the four edges. then paste your door (as a component) into that component. move the edges (in the plane of the wall surface only) to fit the component where it should be cutting the wall.
P.S. I cannot understand why people work white on white style. I always find it hard to see what I am doing in 3d! And are you working in parallel projection? I also find that awkward.
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@pbacot said:
P.S. I cannot understand why people work white on white style. I always find it hard to see what I am doing in 3d! And are you working in parallel projection? I also find that awkward.
. Good luck.I really appreciate your response. I went back and read some more tutorials and now I understand what you were telling me. I rebuilt the door completely and just added to my model and all worked well. Still need a little more practice to make sure I do right first tine.
Yes, I always work on white style. Given the modeling I do (build car was parts and layouts - not the bulding) this works the best for me as everything has to be given to the potential customer in a PDF file.
Yes, I always work in parallel projection. This seems to work the best for me given the work I normally do. I only use the perspective mode when I generate movies that take you through the car wash. The parallel mode is also used to create 2D DWG files that are then pasted into the final building drawings.
Again, thanks for looking at this and pointing me in the right direction.
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