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Frustration with Face Selection + possible BUG in UNDO stack.

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chuft-captain:

--- Quote from: lppena on October 25, 2017, 07:10:31 am ---Is it possible just to uniformly rescale the 2nd copy to fit inside the 1st?

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I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I think that approach may result in scaling errors, and contiguous parts of the 2 meshes may no longer meet with that approach ... but perhaps I mis-understand what you mean.
I think I have a reasonably workable method now, but thanks also for the suggestion. If I can get my head around what you mean, then that may be an alternate solution. There's many ways to skin a cat, esp. in 3D modelling (pun intended).

Cheers
CC

ENSONIQ5:
I'm not sure of your workflow but if you are creating these objects in Anim8or there is a quicker way to get the end result.

1) Create the object with no thickness (Fig 1) and place a copy in a second Object
2) Select all faces (Fig 2)
3) In point-edit mode, select the connected extrude tool (Fig 3)
4) Pull out the faces, creating sills in the process (Fig 4)

The original object should fit perfectly inside the extruded outer object.

chuft-captain:
Actually, I do most of the design work in openSCAD before importing into Anim8tor for finishing (splitting of the meshes, texturing, etc).
(Fig 1)

This makes it very fast and easy to re-design because it's a parametric design.

eg.
Want fewer floors? Change a single value: (Fig2)
Want more floors? (Fig3)
Hell of a lot more floors?  (Fig4)

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chuft-captain:
Thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to make suggestions on this thread.
I tend to just learn whatever limited functionality I need to get specific tasks done in Anim8tor so I probably haven't developed the depth of knowledge most people here have, so I really appreciate your advice.
It's always tricky when you "don't know what you don't know" (if you get my drift).

Cheers
CC

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