Hi RayCAD 1962, I was not familiar with the AutoCAD Imprint command, so I looked it up here:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-501AEEF4-5769-48A6-AE8D-2616F9B640C9-htm.html
It seems that it is a way to cut up a planar face using a curve that is on the face?
You can use the Edit > Trim command in MoI to do that, you don't need a separate script.
First select the solid that you want to imprint. Then run Edit > Trim. At the "select cutting objects" prompt select your curve, and right-click in a viewport or push "Done". Then the prompt shows the next step of the Trim command which is to select which pieces you want to remove. In this case you want to keep all the pieces so just push "Done" or right-click in a viewport. Also it may be convenient to turn on the "Keep all joined" checkbox that shows at this stage so it will keep the pieces connected together. That kind of makes it easier to then extrude since you can select faces and extrude those and when you extrude a face sub-object it will automatically boolean the extrusion to the main object.
In the future the trim step will probably be built into Extrude as well but for now you would use a combination of Trim and then Extrude.
Another way you can do it is instead of doing Trim you can extrude your curve downwards to make a solid and then use that solid as a cutting object with boolean difference.
If you're still stuck please post a .3dm model file in it with your objects that you are using.
- Michael |
