Hi all,
I’m trying to create a shape that looks like a twisted pyramid, but I’m having an issue with the edges.
In the bottom picture, edges A and B look fine, but for some reason, the other two edges have a step in them.
I created this by first drawing a 2” × 2” rectangle and offsetting it by 1”.
Then, I made an arc connecting a point on the inner edge to a point on the outer rectangle.
Finally, I moved the inner rectangle 2” along the Z-axis.
Not sure if there is a better way.
Can anyone help me? I’m new to skecup. Thank you in advance,
If you have sketchup pro as your profile says, you can do it with plugins, fredoscale comes to my mind to make something like that with a few clicks.
Have you tried using the Eraser tool with the Hide modifier to get rid of those extra edges?
DaveR
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Box Twisting from FredoScale.
The edges across the surfaces will show from certain aspects even if they are softened.
Hi Dave ,
Small correction, I have a license but I’m using the version for HigherEDU .
Anyway, the plugin did the work. Thank you for answering.
I was wondering if there’s a way to do it without a plugin. What was the issue with my approach?
DaveR
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You can do it with native tools although you might not get the same result and it’ll take a bunch of manual stitching of vertices.
Box
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If you are happy with them you can delete the rest and copy array the good faces.
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