can someone recommend a good tutorial or tips board for layers & groups & components thx
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Im having trouble with making a group.i triple click & it keeps catching other stuff with it.or it doesnât take the bottom face pls help
Triple clicking always selects all connected edges and faces. You need to make groups or components as you go. At the stage your model is apparently at now, youâll need to either add to or subtract from the selection as needed.
The best work flow is to work on one object at a time. Draw an object, make a group or component and then move on to the next part. Donât use a scatter gun approach to drawing because your model will become difficult to work with as youâve discovered.
I try to do that but it didnt work.i make a floor then grp it. then offset to make walls. then grp walls but when i pull the walls up i need to regrp correct? when ii do thatt i cant catch the bottom. thx
Are you exploding the group after you make it? You shouldnât need to. If youâre drawing a floor plan, delete the floor leaving just the faces inside the outlines of the walls. Use Push/Pull to pull the walls up to height, select all of the geometry and make the group. Thereâs no need to make a group before you get the walls 3D.
U mean i shouldnât explode the grp to push pull?
Do i hide the floor then pull up walls triple click.then retrn the floor hide the walls raise the floor then triple clk uhide all
Thx 4 your help
No. You shouldnât explode after you make the group. You can open a group for editing if needed but exploding it is a waste of time in this case. Right click on the group and choose Edit Group.
No. Hiding it wonât separate it from the walls. If you really need to keep the face of the floor, select it and use Edit>Cut. Then make the walls 3D. Select the wall geometry and make it a group. Then use Edit>Paste in place to paste the floor face back where you cut it from.
I did just that & i losjt the door when i hid it.i redlrew it raised it 6 in grpd openepd walls &could make window hole. which time zone r u in.when is good to email u thx
Did just what?
thx 4 all your help. edit really helped. I now understand that when I make
a grp thatâs 2d & then edit to 3d it still stays grpd. Correct? a few
times I wasnât able to PPull so I had to explode. Any idea what I( did
wrong?. Do u reco using layer- entity or outliner? Sometimes i succeed in
making a layer & others not. u have any good tutorials on that? thx agn
Because your 2D wall plan is a group, you should use âedit groupâ to edit the face within the group.
- Create your 2D wall plan
- Select the edges and faces desired, and group them (so they will not interact with other new geometries.
- double-click the group (or right-click and select âedit groupâ from the context menu)
- Use the Push/Pull tool to extrude the walls into the third dimension
- Close the group (click on something outside the group, or right-click and select âclose groupâ)
I have a wiki page on this subject. Be warned that my practices are not definitive. I am not an engineer or an architect, but this is the way that I like to organize a house model.
Here is another wiki page showing how I lay out a floorplan for a tiny house. This was part of an assignment for a course at New Mexico State University
Check my 3D Warehouse collection of 2D floorplan components
If youâre into plumbing, I have a collection of assorted Schedule 40 PVC fittings
thx whatâs the difference between edit group & explode?
Editing a group opens the container to allow you to make changes. When you exit the edit mode the container gets closed up again. Explode takes the container off of the group and throws it away. It generally doesnât make sense to explode a group to make changes to it.
If you explode a component to make changes to it, the geometry will no longer be related to the other instances of the component in the model so those other instances will not get the same modifications. If you want to make changes to an instance of a component without changing the others, it is better to use Make Unique before editing. Donât explode it.
