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Hi Pat

I've come across that issue too. Be good if the split tool split everything.

It makes a difference if extruding 2 or 3 polylines together. 2 works, 3 doesn't.

Converting the extrude created from 3 polylines to a generic solid made no difference. Can't use the split tool on it.

Brett

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Thought the split tool cuts through everything.

Just drew rectangles 3d extruded polygons and rectangle, rectangles, wall, windows etc and when I drew a split line across all of them they all split along the line, It destroyed the windows and I was only left with lines.

Am I missing the point???

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Thanks, I had selected 2 polygons in plan view, then extruded them.

If they are extruded separately the split tool works fine.

Brett

That VW behavior of Solids resulting in a Single Solid that contains many

independent, non-touching Objects is the most annoying "feature" I have

ever seen in any CAD application.

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That VW behavior of Solids resulting in a Single Solid that contains many

independent, non-touching Objects is the most annoying "feature" I have

ever seen in any CAD application.

I actually love this feature and use it to my advantage all the time. Its easy enough to use the Ungroup command to separate them into individual extrudes.

(A simple example - draw a simple table with an extrude for the top and 4 legs extruded together. If you want to change the height of the table, you only need to resize one extrude, not four.)

Kevin

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Thought the split tool cuts through everything.

Just drew rectangles 3d extruded polygons and rectangle, rectangles, wall, windows etc and when I drew a split line across all of them they all split along the line, It destroyed the windows and I was only left with lines.

Am I missing the point???

I assumed it cut through everything too. I tried with a window in a wall and the results are pretty weird. If you do it in top/plan the wall splits along the cut line but the window moves itself over to be in one wall or the other. If you do it in a 3d view like top the window disappears entirely. I personally think this is a bug.

Kevin

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use the Ungroup command to separate them into individual extrudes.

Thanks,

didn't know that. (For Extrudes)

But it is for Solid additions that you converted to Generic Solids, which I use

most of the time.

You can't even "delete" one of those extra volumes by Push Pull.

You have to create a deleting geometry for a new Solid Substraction.

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Well, in my other CAD, for boolean additions,

I simply select all "Walls" and run the tool.

Those that intersect will glue together while everything else stays as is.

So you can do all VW steps at one time.

If you made something wrong in VW before converting to solids,

you may have to move your dependent independent geometry later by push pull tool.

:grin:

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Brett,

Out of curiosity, does your cutting line cross the extruded shapes or just the space between them? Can you post a file containing an example extrude?

You could ungroup the extrude and then slice across the objects with the Split tool (ungrouping an extrude made up of three separate 2d shapes separates it into 3 separate extrudes).

Kevin

Hi Kevin

The cutting line crosses the extruded shape.

File attached.

If I ungroup the extrude, then yes, it does split. Good tip.

Thanks

Brett

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