Hey, what is a up, nation?
In this session we're gonna be answering a question from
Matz, who asks "How can I cut a tube in a 45 degree segment?"
I've created a tube here in Sketchup already, and there are a
few different ways that you can actually
cut a tube in Sketchup. So I'm going to show you those three starting with maybe
the most obvious, and then go from there.
So if I was in here and I wanted to make a 45-degree cut, the first thing I would
do would be to make a group of that tube and then make another object that
essentially we're gonna use to slice our tube. So I'm gonna rotate, press Q here
to bring up the rotate tool, and rotate this face 45 degrees. I'm not
gonna be too careful about how I move this, I'm just gonna move it so that it
intersects the tube. As long as it is fully covering that tube, I'm good. So the
next thing up here in the tool bar I have it's called the solid tools, if
you don't have this you just right-click in the open space and you want to make
sure that solid tools is checked. Now the third button from the top right that is
actually the subtract tool, and in the bottom left you can see that it says
"subtract first solid from second and keep only the result of the in the model",
so that's what we want to do, so we will select, it's like the first just the
first will will subtract from so we want to select our object and then the tube
and this is the result. So pretty simple, but it involved some grouping of both
and it gets rid of our shape that we used to subtract from. So certainly an
effective method, but maybe not the best. The second way we're just gonna make a
plane here, so I'm gonna press R for the rectangle tool and then Q
you to rotate this 45 degrees, obviously this could be any angle you wanted but
we're using 45 degrees for this example. Place it's, that it's intersecting that
plane, I'm going to select all of these. control+a to select off since it's the
only thing in my model, right click and go to
intersect faces with selection, and well that's going to do is essentially slice
this tube because it's ungrouped, and then our plane and that is selected is
grouped, so it's not gonna actually do anything to that. And then we can use the
eraser tool with E to erase the extra objects. But you can see here the end is
actually not filled in, and if you draw a line on the outside it just makes a full
circle, so you actually have to draw a second line on the inside and then
delete it if you want your end to be capped essentially. So super effective
and fast, probably the fastest until you get up to the very end where you need to
fill in that shape, so if you don't need to do that, if you're combining two
shapes like two pipes that are at 45 degree angles maybe it makes sense to do
it this way. And then the last way is using a plug-in, and I'm just gonna say
full disclosure here this plug-in cost 15 dollars and I don't get anything if
you if you buy it, it's made by a plugin creator who makes a ton of plugins whose
name is Eneroth, I think that's how you say her name
I'm not hundred percent sure, so sorry if I said it wrong. But basically this will
let you do it and I think the quickest way and the easiest is 15 bucks, but she
makes so many awesome plugins, or I guess they're actually called extensions, so
many awesome extensions I was like, you know what, she deserves at least $15 for
me because she's helped me so much through all of her awesome plugins. So
with this you're gonna do the same thing you sorted last time and
make that plain, but the big difference here is that you don't need to intersect
it with the tube, so we're gonna just position this in and then make a copy of
it and flip it along the red axis, so for some reason it doesn't seem to actually
work when I do it the first time, so I'm just actually gonna rotate it, just
if you're going to work around for that, so rotate this 180 degrees, then push it
in and it doesn't actually have to be even in the same plane, as the tube which
is kind of cool. So I'm going to move this off to the side and you could use
this as a reference for basically anything, it'll let you those two planes
will let you cut anything. So what I did is I selected that and then moused over
to the alignment angle, using the mouse and then held shift and made my cut, so
super awesome that I can just do that so quickly.
And you could even move it to be the other side just as quickly,
you know, let's say I cut it in the wrong direction and that is so incredibly
helpful like I love the way that this works. So, it's called an off aligned
faces it's fit you can get it through the the extension warehouse and
like I said, it's 15 bucks, I don't get anything for saying that, I just think if
you use her stuff I would totally recommend buying it. So, but that's that
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