Sheet metal in V4

 From:  Michael Gibson
8126.34 In reply to 8126.28 
Hi Carlos, please give the attached plug-in a try, instructions for installing a plug-in are here: http://moi3d.com/faq#Q:_How_do_I_install_a_plug-in_script.3F

Set up a shortcut key with this new command RotateAndExtrudeFace on it.

Select your face and then push your shortcut key, or you can also select it after you push your shortcut key, in which case you'll only need to do one click to select it (no "drill in" needed, the drill in is automatic since it knows it is only trying to select a face at this point).

Next step is to select one of the edges of the face which will be used as the pivot edge.

You will now be in the equivalent of the RotateAxis command but on the 4th point pick in there, the first 3 points will be already set up from the face's edges. So as you move your mouse around you will see the face being rotated. It will also not be necessary to do the last right-click that you needed in RotateAxis to end the "make copies" mode, this version exits the rotation part after you've done one click.

After you pick the point to set the rotation, the face will be selected and it will run the extrude command next automatically. If you don't want extrude to run automatically, remove the line from RotateAndExtrudeFace.js near the end that says moi.command.execCommand( 'extrude' );

You can also type in an angle value to do the rotation instead of picking a point but one tricky thing with this is which direction is a positive angle and which is negative will be determined by the orientation of the edge, if you want to do this you'll need to move your mouse first and observe which direction is reading as positive before knowing which direction to use.

Hope this helps streamline your process!

- Michael