Hi guys,

I'm building a model that has a lot of very straight edges that meet in very shallow angles. Where they meet, I need to create a squared off gap, or groove between the panels.

I've tried using inset and I just get "calculation failed".

Is there any other way to create something like that? I have a ton of them to do.

Thanks,

Paul

Hi Paulrus,

Not sure if I understand correctly, maybe Chamfer?



Marc

Hi Paul, could you post a simplified sample model in 3DM format that has that kind of structure that you're using so we can take a look at it?

That would make it a lot easier to give some advice.

- Michael

Hi Paul

I would look at a few methods

sweep a circle or profile down the edge and remove for a groove
or boolean diff down an edge and chamfer either edge to make a V which with a 2 measurement you can get a very narrow V that goes almost right through
or chamfer for a flat




cheers
shayne

Maybe another possibility is to start with a surface that has not been thickened, and then break that apart and use Extrude with the tapered option something like this:





- Michael

Shayno's looks kind-of like what I'm up against. Except not only do I have a bunch of low-angle vertical panels coming together, but each panel also has low-angle horizontal angles too.

The only solution I could come up with was to extract a line from the corner, extrude it without caps, then shell the result and use that as a boolean. It's not quite what I wanted, but it's probably good enough.

Unrelated to this problem, but related to the project I'm working on, I realized that adding in a way to have smooth/rounded corners on the Inset tool like we've got in the Offset tool. I've been needing to make panels and wanted to have rounded corners on them. For some reason if I used Inset, then tried selecting the corner lines to Fillet, it wouldn't work.

-Paul

Hi Paul,

> For some reason if I used Inset, then tried selecting the corner lines to Fillet, it wouldn't work.

Do you still have this particular model handy? If you'd like to get more information on why Fillet didn't work in that case, if you could post the model file I can take a look at it and see if I can offer any hints.

- Michael

can you post some example surfaces/walls where inset doesn't work?

This is what needs to be seen....

Hi Paul

This works

Create the inside surface , separate then select all faces and extrude , from them you can fillet or chamfer the outer edges

I hope this is on the right track
cheers
shayne