Cut opening question
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We have a couple interns in the office now and one is working on a large building in SU. She created a window component, placed it on the wall then copied it about 60 times around the building and now wants them to cut the opening. (Wishing she asked how to cut the opening before she copied them that many times)
I am trying to figure out how to "revert" or "update" the component from a non-cut opening component to one that does. I have tried a few things but am stumped. As far as I can tell she is going to have to start a new component that cuts an opening then replace all the others.
(hoping I don't have to move this to the D'oh thread)
Thanks.
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Add the edges defining the opening inside the component. Go to the component window and select the component in the list. Click on edit tab. Choose "cut opening" check box.
You may need to change the axes depending on how the component was originally made.
In some cases "Reglue" plugin is needed to get components to glue (and cut) at the correct surface.
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@pbacot said:
Add the edges defining the opening inside the component. Go to the component window and select the component in the list. Click on edit tab. Choose "cut opening" check box.
You may need to change the axes depending on how the component was originally made.
In some cases "Reglue" plugin is needed to get components to glue (and cut) at the correct surface.
Maybe before cut openning you'll need to activate "glue to..." "any".
And another plugin that works well with a lot of components to glue and unglue is superglue from thomthom.
You always have to be careful that the edges that will form the hole, as pbacot says, are coplanar and the red and green axis are in the same plane. It is also imperative that this is the facade plane.
If she's been copying the windows around I bet the edges+axis+façade plan, won't meet...
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Thanks. Turns out the component was set to "cut opening" and set to "any". I oriented the axis but it is still not cooperating.
We created a new component and she is coping them around the building now. Luckily they are all on the same plane of the two story building. So copying them is not a big hassle. -
The trick to copy one of those cut opening comps is to always hit a reference point in the face where it's glued to and not on the component.
The reason for this is that usually the components are much more complex than the faces they're glued to, and if you pick a reference point out of the gluing plane, it won't glue in the new face when you copy it.
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Select all the windows and use replace with from the component browser to replace them all with the new component.
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Or create a new component and copy it inside the faulty component. Then erase the old geometry and get outside and explode all the components that have the good component inside.
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@jql said:
The trick to copy one of those cut opening comps is to always hit a reference point in the face where it's glued to and not on the component.
The reason for this is that usually the components are much more complex than the faces they're glued to, and if you pick a reference point out of the gluing plane, it won't glue in the new face when you copy it.
Thanks again.
@box said:
Select all the windows and use replace with from the component browser to replace them all with the new component.
Works like a charm. Thanks.
@ely862me said:
Or create a new component and copy it inside the faulty component. Then erase the old geometry and get outside and explode all the components that have the good component inside.
This was actually my first thought but I could not get it to work at all.
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Funny thing, Box's advice didn't work for me but what I said worked !
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@ely862me said:
Funny thing, Box's advice didn't work for me but what I said worked !
Mainly I think it is about glued or not.That must be because of cutting edge's plan VS insertion points VS axis VS face to glue on.
EDIT:
Sometimes the components are just slightly off face. In these cases they might still glue to face and cut opening but Sketchup will start asking if you want to fix the model. It says it fixes but it doesn't and keeps going on like this... Everything will work ok but section cut faces won't be perfect... You can just ignore warnings in model info.
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