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    From surface or plane to a stair?

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    • H Offline
      herrschnitzel
      last edited by

      Hi is there a plugin which creates stairs out of surfaces or planes by a given angle?stair.JPG

      I think it wouldn't be possible for this example but for a component or group maybe?
      But again if I define direction and lowest and highest point it could be possible for a solid model...

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
        last edited by

        Not that I know of mate. I'd just create two solids and subtract one from the other....

        Just Curious...

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          Seems FredoScale can make that in a wink?
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          Frenchy Pilou
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          • H Offline
            herrschnitzel
            last edited by

            wouldn't it be nice to have a plugin for it πŸ˜„

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              @herrschnitzel said:

              wouldn't it be nice to have a plugin for it πŸ˜„

              You should write one.

              Although you would need to manually create the stair step profile, you could use TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails to get the faces.
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              Making the stair step profile is trivial.

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              • Jean LemireJ Offline
                Jean Lemire
                last edited by

                Hi folks.

                I think the simplest way is, as Utiler wrote it, to use two separate shapes and do an intersection and then some clean-up.

                Click in sequence on the Scenes tabs of this SU file for ideas.


                Stairs from an inclined plane.skp

                Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                • JQLJ Offline
                  JQL
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                  @utiler said:

                  Not that I know of mate. I'd just create two solids and subtract one from the other....

                  This is right!

                  If you don't have a Pro version you can do the same with "intersect faces with..." from the right click context menu.

                  I prefer using it most of the time as most of the time I have no solids.

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