referencing center of a hole?

[Ron Kenyeri]

Hello group,

After subtracting a extruded circle from and extruded rectangle, to form a hole, I can no longer find the center of the hole using "smart curser".

Is it possible to move/copy a hole? If I have a hole at x,y and I want to move it to x+1, y is there some way to do this?

Is it possible to extrude a group of individual objects? (i.e. I have six circles that will become holes, can I extrude them in mass? I can subtract them in mass.)

Thanks,

Ron Kenyeri

[MikeB]

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Originally posted by rlkenyeri:

Hello group,

After subtracting a extruded circle from and extruded rectangle, to form a hole, I can no longer find the center of the hole using "smart curser".

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You could set a 3-d locus in the center of the hole.

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Originally posted by rlkenyeri:

Hello group,

Is it possible to move/copy a hole? If I have a hole at x,y and I want to move it to x+1, y is there some way to do this?

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Yes, go into group edit mode (command [ ) this will give you access to the origional rectangular extrude and the extruded circle. Move your circle and then exit group edit mode (command ] ) and the subtraction will be updated. You can use this technique to get all the way back to your origional polygon or rectangle that was used to create the extrude.

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Originally posted by rlkenyeri:

Hello group,

Is it possible to extrude a group of individual objects? (i.e. I have six circles that will become holes, can I extrude them in mass? I can subtract them in mass.)

Thanks,

Ron Kenyeri

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Yes, Yes, and Yes. Just select all the objects and use the extrude command,

[Ron Kenyeri]

Thanks for the suggestions!

The 3D loci is a good idea

As for the EDIT GROUP I would have never thought of using it after reading the description in the manual. Nor do I remember seeing it mentioned in the 3D powerpack tutorials. Do you recemend a class/book/cd for learning 3D in vector works?

As for the multiple extrude, yes you are correct what I was doing was selecting the rectangle and the circles, and vw was trying to generate a tapered extrusion!

Thanks again,

Ron

[MikeB]

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Originally posted by rlkenyeri:

Do you recemend a class/book/cd for learning 3D in vector works?

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No, I just learned through trial and error, and this message board.

[Heather Francis]

One more neat little thing is that you can extrude a group of objects at one time, then afterwards you can just ungroup (ctrl U) them and have access to each individual object.