A question
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Please view the attached sketchUp file.
Is there a faster way to create 'cutting plane' out the two loops that I have in the file?
Thanks!
~eR
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hi lr,
i am not sure i understand what you want. do you want to make each of these loops a cutting plane?
first of all they should be made into planes but it is not possible as the edges that make up the loops are not level (not at the same height).
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If you noticed in the skippy file, at one end I had started to create surface between the loops. I want that surface to be all around.
and yes, edges are non-coplanar. this info came from survey data.
Please see the attached jpg. Hope this will make it clearer what I want to do.
In grayish scale is the terrain and the orange selected curve is the curb line. now to apply appropriate textures I need to get a line of intersection on the terrain (which is not flat - at all..
..) So i was hoping if I can create a huge plane cutting through the terrain, then I can use 'intersect with model'...
Thanks!
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would it not help if you drew a coplanar shape based on one of the loops, made a face out of it, extruded it and then got rid of the two horizontal surfaces. you would be left with a fence-like object that could be used for intersecting with something else.
hope it helps.
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well yes that is true... but I was hoping to work straight with what I already have here
but guess what you suggest here is I am going to end up doing anyways...It would be nice if there was a ruby which would allow to 'magically' create a fence like surface as we copied a curve along the blue axis!!!...ala push-pull but with a line as opposed to a plane!!
Thanks!
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If I'm understanding what you are aiming at, I think I've got something which may be helpful for you.
I used the SoapSkinBubbleTools http://www.tensile-structures.de/sb_software.html on the 1st line. SoapSkinBubbleTools can make a tensile structure within your shape, but I stopped it when it had only made a planer projection. Then I push/pulled that to the 2nd line, selected the bottom surface and moved it to be roughly a projection of the 2nd line.
If that helps, great. Otherwise I had fun.
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wow soapskinbubble eh?...that absolutely worked for me...Thanks a ton!
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