topic Re: Cutting cylinders. in Modeling

Cutting cylinders.

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:45:23 GMT

Hey, guys!

Is there anyways to cut the tube in the basic shapes library? I need it cut by 45 degrees.

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

I've attached a picture to help explain.

Thanks.

Re: Cutting cylinders.

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:55:12 GMT

Use the solid element operations. For the sloping cut it's probably easiest to use a roof but sloping walls, a complex profile or even a mesh would do the trick depending on what you need it for.

Re: Cutting cylinders.

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:54:40 GMT

I need the tubing to be hollow though as i want to place a light inside of it.

Re: Cutting cylinders.

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:06:00 GMT

If you use the Tube object from standard library, it will be hollow (specify tube diameter and thickness). Image below shows Tube 11 from AC 11 library, cut by a roof at 45degrees which is on a layer set to wireframe display. SEO with Tube as Target and roof as operator, subtract with downwards extrusion.

Re: Cutting cylinders.

Ralph Wessel — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:10:05 GMT

Kawsome wrote:
Is there anyways to cut the tube in the basic shapes library? I need it cut by 45 degrees.

Try OBJECTiVE. It's free for educational use, and will make this quite easy. Referring to the attached image:

1. Select the pipe, click the menu OBJECTiVE > Tools > Split, and trace a line where you want to cut the pipe

2. Click on the side to remain selected, and the pipe will be split. This is much easier than SEO (you don't need to leave operators for cutting planes lying around). You can also continue to cut the object at multiple angles.

3. The cut object also looks right in 2D (SEO doesn't) and the cut object can be freely rotated with OBJECTiVE's rotate tool.

4. The complete shapes in 3D

Re: Cutting cylinders.

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:58:29 GMT

Thanks very much for the advice guys!