Good evening everyone..

I'm not sure what I'm looking for.

I build vanities.

I need a way to create a pattern that I can drop into any panel (typically a drawer bottom that needs a cutout for plumbing clearance) that is a rectangle with a series of holes around three sides of the perimeter. The pattern would be placed in the middle back of the drawer bottom creating a notch.

I know how to do it once, but I need to do it regularly and would rather have something that I can just pick and place where I need it, and then extrude it though the panel.

I can make a dxf if that can work somehow.

Thanks.

Good morning.

Is there a way or an addin that will automatically export a 3D model when a model is saved? We export all our 3D models to a place where people can view them so the newest version would need to over write the old one.

Thanks in advance.

stl importer by Jim Foltz

I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Good evening All.

I am working with a 3D file of a head.

The file comes from http://www.facegen.com/sampleExports.htm and I'm using the stl solid.

When I import as inches I get a model that is way too large but is a solid. When I import as mm I get the correct size but not a solid.

I have tried importing in inches and scaling down but that doesn't seem to be working very well.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

Good morning All.

I use SU every day, but only in the cabinet arena with CabinetSense.

In this case I am working with importing a human head as a 3ds file and need to section it. The model comes from http://www.facegen.com/sampleExports.htm

I have TIG's slicer but it won't work because the model is not a solid.

I have TT's solid inspector but I guess the model is not enough of a solid for that to work and look for errors.

Also, the model seems to be way out of scale when imported.

My first task is to figure out how to make this a solid.

Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.

SU8

Thanks.

Hi All

Is there an easy way to slice a model into sections (in my case 50 or so) and export the sections as 2d dxf files?

Thanks.

What machine did you buy?

Hi mac1

That's exactly what I want.

How would I use the rotate tool for this? I assume that your suggesting I rotate the top arch somehow.

I will play with Fredo's plugin. Any tips you can offer would help.

Thanks.

Good evening all

I do a lot of work with window arches and would like to figure out how to do it quickly.

I can use the arc tool to get my inside shape, say 48 inches across and 6 inch bulge. Next I want another shape a given distance away from the first (a la offset) but I need the new arch to continue to the plane of the first one.

In the attached model, the arch needs to go to at least the vertical lines that are drawn. The verticals are the same distance from the ends of the first arch as the offset dimension.

Ideally it'd create the closed shape comprised of the inner and outer arcs and the horizontal and vertical lines.

Any ideas if these is an existing plugin that will do this?

Arch.skp