ericjms Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Hi community, I was wondering if there is a way to subtract a portion of an extracted and deformed circle via the "subtract solid function"? What I'm attempting to do is to keep the shape but crop the back off. When I attempt to do this I end up destroying the original shape. Am I missing something? pics attached. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 When you run the Subract Solids command and see the selection pop-up, try clicking the arrow buttons until the other object is highlighted in red. I suspect it's subtracting opposite of how you expect. 1 Quote Link to comment
ericjms Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 Attempted that. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted February 20, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 20, 2021 OK so they both need to be either an extrude or a solid they must not be a group or symbol.. Try converting them to a solid first and then try the subtract command. If they are both solids try checking the box hat says retain and see if you can remove the piece you are looking for. You should also have a look in the 3d power pack menu as there will likely be a command in their which should work. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 The screenshot makes it looks like some buggy deformation is happening. (It reminds me of when Mesh smoothing causes weird polygon artifacts on meshes that have holes in them). @ericjms Were you able to find a solution? Or, could you post a file with those two objects that you're working with? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee TomWhiteLight Posted February 22, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 22, 2021 Yes when two solids occupy the same space you will see that distortion. A subtract solids command should stop that from happening. Quote Link to comment
ericjms Posted February 24, 2021 Author Share Posted February 24, 2021 @Andy Broomell I'll circle back around to this topic again! Moving so I haven't had proper time to play around with this. Quote Link to comment
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