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While the tool is selected, click onto the surface while holding the click drag on Z(blue) direction then release it, then press the left/right/up arrow on your keyboard and drag the the first line of your rectangle to that locked direction then draw the other side the same way.
Yet, you can do this with the pencil tool in the same manner.
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Hi Patrick !
If you know sketchup this is perhaps an easy deal(1 hour work), but if you don't it is harder.
I would advice you to take a look at the youtube sketchup tools tutorials.
When you know to use them, then perhaps it would be easier for you to use the Photomatch technique.
Then if your products are kind of the same but different sizes and configurations I would make use of components: legs, fire eyes, taps, handles etc.
At the end you will select a style that looks like a drawing/sketch and choose a view that suits you best.
Use the Rotated Rectangle tool for that.
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Funny thing, Box's advice didn't work for me but what I said worked !
Mainly I think it is about glued or not.
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.
Same warning for me too. That didn't stopped me to search it again in a different context.
This kind of CNC. Took me a while to build and it is still far from complete.
The Z axis travel should be over 350mm, X is 1750mm and Y is 1100mm.
These are my first real attempts. Some models done for my sister in law - she's a kindergarten teacher. And a stepper motor cover done in foam- just for testing the code.
Sorry to somehow hijacking the thread.
You have to appreciate something like this !! Everytime I see this kind of work I want to try it myself.
That looks great !!
Perhaps when I finally put my CNC at work I will buy some printing attachments too.
You don't need to subtract it from the dome, you can simply make a copy of your shapes and work with them then move the resulted geometry over your actual building.
Don't create it with thickness. Try using Joint Push&Pull to give thickness.
What slicing up are you referring to? Usually slicing a model like this will give you small empty triangles. If you really want to cut it into pieces you should scale the model up like 10 or 100 times, do the slicing and healing and then scale it down back.
Also you should keep the segments of the last profile closer to the last circle/elipse.
Something like this. You draw the top shapes,then the sides. In a way that look like they are connected of course.
You should draw that shape on a horizontal plane, then push it down and intersect it with the dome.
You can do the same for the walls. Then group the intersections and play further rounding the corners and giving it thickness .
Yep, you just have to wait a bit, about 3-4 minutes, for each intersection to be made.
In the middle I opted to make the middle line coplanar and just cut the inside part which has no middle line. Then you just unsmooth it and you have the cut.
Keep in mind to intersect each plane separately to have faster response with the intersection. In my case I worked the middle line then each end .
I also scaled it up 10 times more, then down again.
Yes, that purge.
If it is just 8MB you can compress it using winrar or winzip .. It will make it under 4MB for sure.
Woah, that's stunning fast !
If you post the model with the planes I will give it a go.
Mainly your model does not close in the sections because of the small open faces that were created after cutting the entire shell. That is why Solo told you to scale it up 10 times and even 100 times and then rescale to real. Perhaps you have a not powerful processor but if you wait long enough it will cut it eventually.
You can try having the model in a separated group or together with the faces. If you have it in a group you need to get inside the group and select the shell and intersect it with the model. If you have all together select all and intersect selected. After the intersection you should be able to select the individual parts.
