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- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:27:34 UT
- From: Richard Foster <RFoster_TG@CLASSIC.MSN.COM>
- Subject: Re: [IML] QUEST: SLICING was: Creating an object of a text
- outline..
- sort of.. :)
-
- Hi...
-
- One old IML tip for slicing was that if each object doesn't slice with itself,
- they they ain't going to slice each other. If you're just drilling a hole
- through something, select the faces on the target object which are to be
- sliced and fracture. Then slice the fractured part, remove the debris and
- merge back with the original object.
-
- If that doesn't work... give up! Assuming all the other tricks like moving,
- scaling, shutting down Imagine and starting up again, going to make a cup of
- coffee, having a smoke etc, etc don't work.
-
- Here's something I discovered whilst doing my tedious window drawings. I used
- to get bogged down slicing complicated aluminium and PVCu profiles for the
- mitred corners; they never worked. However, if you take the profile outline,
- rotate it through 45 degrees and scale it on it's Z axis by 1.41, you don't
- need to slice. Simply realign the axis only so that the Y portion is pointing
- in the direction of the extrusion, extrude it, select the new points and
- negative scale them on the X axis, you can easily build a perfectly mitred
- frame without slicing.
-
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- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:58:42 -0700
- From: Bill Alexander <wlalexander@OLYWA.NET>
-
- Really, I have had them all work at one time or the other. You just have
- to try different ways, fracturing the faces is one I haven't tried untill I
- read about it in the manual everyone keeps picking on.
-
- Anyway, I would try different ways, I can usually get them to slice one way
- or the other.
- cya
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- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:44:18 -0500
- From: Gerald Bechen <gbechen@ICI.NET>
-
- On 30-Sep-97, Richard Foster wrote:
- >Hi...
-
- Snipety-snip!
-
- >Here's something I discovered whilst doing my tedious window drawings. I used
- >to get bogged down slicing complicated aluminium and PVCu profiles for the
- >mitred corners; they never worked. However, if you take the profile outline,
- >rotate it through 45 degrees and scale it on it's Z axis by 1.41, you don't
- >need to slice. Simply realign the axis only so that the Y portion is pointing
- >in the direction of the extrusion, extrude it, select the new points and
- >negative scale them on the X axis, you can easily build a perfectly mitred
- >frame without slicing.
-
- >Regards RICH
-
-
- Or as Charles Blaquiere pointed out here recently:
-
- 1. Add an axis and make your profile cross-section.
- 2. Offset the axis an appropriate amount
- 3. Sweep your cross-section 360 degrees using only four segments
- 4. Resize to suit by dragging the ends around.
-
- 5. Works very well ... thanks Charles!
-
- G. Bechen
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