topic Re: Offsetting Walls in Modeling

Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:43:57 GMT

I found lots of information about offsetting polylines, but can't seem to find a way to offset a wall. I need to offset a curved wall and "drag a copy" wont make the curves concentric so I need an offset function...anybody help with this one?

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:27:32 GMT

One way is to copy the wall, paste the copy, select either wall
and when the pet pallet comes up select the offset method and
enter the radius for the offset wall.
Peter Devlin

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:30:03 GMT

select the wall and activate wall tool
also activate offset command
press spacebar and click on the wall and drag

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:42:35 GMT

sorry, donot select the object. activate the wall tool and offest comand
press spacebar and click on wall and drag.

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:52:24 GMT

That's pretty much it. Offset the wall the same as offsetting a polyline - Magic Wand.

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:50:57 GMT

I cant find offset at all on my computer. Which is strange because others here have it. I heardyou press 'o' to also enable offset but that does nothing either. Is it on the recent patch?

Nats

Re: Offsetting Walls

Aaron Bourgoin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:55:07 GMT

Th Offset Tool can be made visible by activating the "Control Box' pallette from The "Window" Menu.

Once you can see it on your screen, ask someone in the office to show you how it works.

Cheers!

Re: Offsetting Walls

TomWaltz — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:50:45 GMT

nats wrote:
I cant find offset at all on my computer. Which is strange because others here have it. I heardyou press 'o' to also enable offset but that does nothing either. Is it on the recent patch?

Nats

It's probably a difference in Workspace. If you show the Control Palette, then O should work. If not, you might need to add it to your keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:56:04 GMT

Nats

Go to Windows / Pallettes / Control Box, it should look like the image below

Re: Offsetting Walls

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:12:20 GMT

Aaron wrote:
Th Offset Tool can be made visible by activating the "Control Box' pallette from The "Window" Menu.

Once you can see it on your screen, ask someone in the office to show you how it works.

Cheers!

Thanks I have it now. I've even finally figured out how to offset splines using polylines and the magic wand! Thats been bugging me for months.

Nats