Hello DannyT and MG,

Thank you very much for the info. The file I posted was for procedure only, I am working from a distorted TIFF and an actual unit that I can measure (thankfully), since the product in question is sourced in Europe but not the US and the STEP files aren't available (just another opportunity to polish the MoI skills, I still have a long way to go). I'll be away a few days, but will try this out and post the final results. It's the last piece needed for the complete quick start guide.

Quick Update:

Tried it before running out the door. Worked perfectly, thanks again.

Hi Michael,

>Hi OSTexo - you're not getting caps on the extrusion
>because your curves there are not planar - MoI only
>knows how to automatically cap something if it is
>closed and planar.

Have come across this one a bit doing my ship. Have found that uncapped ends cap nicely using network. Would it be possible to have a check box for extrude which tries network automatically for non-planar extrudes?

Also, extrusions which are made up from more than one surface create internal extruded surfaces (in fact "stacked" surfaces for shared edges). Would it be possible for extrude to recognise joined surfaces as one surface when doing extrude (ideal) or to automatically delete internal extrusions?

Do you have any plans for extrude?

Hi Mark,

> Have found that uncapped ends cap nicely using network.

You probably had a particular arrangement of curves for that, like a 4-sided boundary?


> Would it be possible to have a check box for extrude which
> tries network automatically for non-planar extrudes?

Unfortunately that would not work in the general cases, it would only work if you had a 3 or 4-sided boundary. For example if you had an outline made up of 5 curve segments it would not be able to be handled automatically by Network.


> Also, extrusions which are made up from more than one
> surface create internal extruded surfaces (in fact "stacked"
> surfaces for shared edges). Would it be possible for extrude
> to recognise joined surfaces as one surface when doing
> extrude (ideal) or to automatically delete internal extrusions?

Yeah, I think this makes sense - I have put it on my list of things to try for v3.

For now you can run Boolean Union on the result with the shared internal wall, it should fuse those pieces together and remove that part.


> Do you have any plans for extrude?

Yup, I have a few different ideas - I'd like to make it easier for an extrusion to be automatically booleaned with an existing solid, like when you are extruding curves that are on an existing object, and also I'd like to have a tapered option for extrude.

- Michael

Hi Mark,

> You probably had a particular arrangement of curves for
> that, like a 4-sided boundary?

Yes, the particular extrude was four sided.

> Unfortunately that would not work in the general cases,
> it would only work if you had a 3 or 4-sided boundary.

Yes, understood.

> For now you can run Boolean Union on the result with the
> shared internal wall, it should fuse those pieces together
> and remove that part.

Jeez I'm an idiot...

I manually searched and destroyed all the internal walls I had created. If there is a hard way to do something, I'll find it!