Thanks. I've finished the floor boards (yes I put it down for a while). Now I've got a lot of dowel holes in the planks w/ no dowels. Making a dowel is easy, but how would you suggest I insert a copy of it into each of the holes? Is there some way of doing this quickly and accurately?

Thanks again. You're right that I neglected to "copy" the cylinder into the model. I did as you suggested and restitched the vertices from the top to the bottom of the circles ( I now see the downside of specifying a lot of "sides" when drawing a circle).

My next challenge is drawing the dowels, which are inserted into the edges of each plank, thus joining it to its neighbor. [Pilou, pls note that these are not typical flooring boards with the tongue and groove profile you suggested. The sides of the planks are smooth and holes are drilled to accommodate the dowels.] I was thinking I would draw the circles for them and then push/pull the hole into the edge of one plank and then try to copy the holes into the neighboring plank somehow. Would the rotate tool be best for this? Is there a faster way to do this for all the planks? Thanks.

Thanks. I did as you indicated and it worked very well. One final question: After deleting the waste, I'm left with planks that are open on the now curved ends. How should I make them solids again?

Thanks for the replies. I should have mentioned that I don't have the pro version. So the consensus approach is to make the planks as usual in 3D, then use the Intersect Faces with Model? I don't know how to use that tool yet so I'll have to study up on it.

Hi,

I'm building a wooden structure that requires assembling planks of different widths (same thicknesses) into a 8' circular floor. I've tried starting with a 8' circle (100 segments) and drawing the planks in 2D and then extruding them individually, but that produced planks with hollow bottoms. I then tried first extruding the circle into a disk with the thickness of the planks and then cutting out the planks individually, but I couldn't figure out how to separate them. What is the proper way to do this so I can individually manipulate the planks. I want to connect them together using wooden pegs. Thanks.