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IT1371

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Metal sheets
« on: June 04, 2017, 04:09:35 PM »
So I have this wall I need to replicate.
These are basically metal sheets with 1-2cm gap between them.
But the thing is there is no pattern, I need to manually assign the cuts.
It there a way to make this with rc?


Michal Karmazín

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Re: Metal sheets
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2017, 11:47:55 AM »
Hi,

An empty Segment with defined Fixed Size can be used to create "holes" and this approach can be combined with using the Clipping area. Attaching a sample scene. Hope you'll find it helpful.

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IT1371

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Re: Metal sheets
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2017, 03:07:48 PM »
Hi Michal,

This is not really what I meant. I already was successful with creating the window holes with the Clipping Area.

I solved it differently. I used vertexes to define the vertical cuts and 3-4 different generators with Z offset and different Z size for the segments.
After that I just cloned and edited the base spline, lifted it and re-attached.
It was a very long process but since there were no pattern I could quickly repeat with Railclone so I just did it manually.