Spiral extrude

[Twickenhaman]

Hi,

am having problems with a similar drawing of end of railing that you helped me with a few weeks ago.

I am trying to create some curved metalwork to end railings against a wall. I have used the spiral toll and created the curved part but cannot join the horizontal strip /capping in 2d to the spiral as a "Compose " unit in 2D . I would then extrude it to 40 mm as one unit. Says it wont compose or add surface and wont extrude anyway.

can you help please.

Thanks again

David

[michaelk]

Select the spiral object

Ungroup

Agree to the dire warning

Spiral is now a polyline and can be added to the rectangle.

hth

mk

[michaelk]

Strange but true:

In this case Ungroup and Convert to Group do exactly the same thing.

[Pat Stanford]

I think Convert to Group is smarter than we think. As is the Insert Symbol as Group option. They both give you a single object back if there is only a single object. If there are multiple objects then they give you a group.

Since the Spiral was a single polyline, Convert to Group gave you that object instead of a group containing that one object.

[Twickenhaman]

Thank you both for your help I would never have gotten this one !

Regards

David