Hi There,
I am trying to split a face into equal parts witht he segment lines at 90 degrees to the current edge but can’t figure it out.
This is the edge:-
https://ibb.co/7pPjWXD
And ultimately want a face to divide similar to this all the way round:-
Thanks,
Your edge isn’t a face, it’s a long series of edges that form a curvy line. But if you did have a face, you could just make the grid separately, then intersect the two.
I did try just extruding them line and making a face, which is straight forward, but the dividing it up equally and the division lines being 90 degrees to the edge it’s on doesn’t seem to work…most dividing extensions just follow standard axis…
Thanks for that, I’ll give it a go, although it’s more the dividing of the face into equal parts with the dividing lines being 90 degrees to the relevant edge that seems to be tricky.
Thanks.
What is the use case for this? It’s simple enough to divide the shape (once it’s a complete loop of edges) at 90° to a local edge but figuring out where to do the dividing such that you end up with equal regions will be very challenging. How precisely do these regions have to be divided?
I think that’s my challenge. I can get the face easy enough and can draw lines to divide it by using an approximate measure with the measure, but ideally would like to have exact equal segments of x and do it automatically rather than painstakingly doing it manually. Hope that makes sense!
If that’s the way I have to do it I’ll carry on, just wondered whether there is an extension or an in built tool that could do it for me.
Thanks.
I don’t think it can be done automatically. I guess once you get a face for the shape you can at least find its area so you know what area for each smaller region you’re shooting for.
So if you’re drawing a grid this is super easy to do with the copy array function in sketchup. It’s a fundamental basic operation. Are you struggling to draw an even grid? You really aren’t clear what you’re looking for. You showed a squiggly line and a couple of rectangles.
This image shows what I am trying to do, i hope, but want the segments to be the same size all the way round the length of the squiggly line, but not have to manually draw lines at the right intervals…
Fredo Spline + Split Tools
Worked great thanks for the help…
