Hi scott, also another note:

> To create the part to begin with I drew a profile with polyline and then extruded it. Was
> there a better way I should created it to begin with to avoid this mess?

Also I'm note entirely sure if this spot here you wanted to follow the same exact circular shape as the cylinders:




If you did want that to have the same circular shape as the cylinder that pokes out from it, (just at a larger diameter), then you'd want to use one of the arc drawing tools for drawing that part (Draw curve > arc), and not the freeform curve drawing tool for that particular section.

Also sometimes it can be more convenient to draw in a big circle and then use Edit > Trim to cut it with a line rather than drawing in an arc. In the case here if you wanted to have a certain thickness that goes around the cylinder it might be convenient to generate the circle by selecting the cylinder's edge and then running Construct > Offset to make an offset curve from that and then that will give you the bigger circle to trim with a crossing line.

- Michael

I appreciate you taking the time Michael to help me not only learn the program but better my overall skills. Everything I've done in the past is far more parametric (OpenSCAD for example is easy for me but I'm limited by it) so actually drawing to some degree of accuracy is new. I also need to learn better control or I end up moving things around and making a mess. Again thanks for taking the time.

One feature request and perhaps there's a script for this already...but I'd like to be able to save quick snapshot files before I do something potentially destructive to my model. Could just be enumerated foo0001, foo0002 et al. While Undo is of course great, often I can't really see what I undid to backstep to the right place. I save often so sometimes just going to last saved is not enough (I've had some crashes on Mac).

Scott

<< Could just be enumerated foo0001, foo0002

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3756.2

Wow. It's like whatever you want it's there somewhere.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.

Thanks!

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