learning to model
Mlinder and I were having this discussion off the forums (forgive us, Paul G ) so I thought it would do more good to try to carry this on in public because I know there are experienced users out there who can clue us "2d'ers" in on doing 3d stuff.
Subject: Mill eXPert Join function (Mlinder)
Anyway, I have been poking around the program and learning what I can without a manual. Coming soon, I’m told.
One of the first things I noticed was the lack of a Join function within the Translate dialog. It was shown in the Tutorial, but not available in the actual program. I contacted Mike about it, and Australia simply removed that function. I notice now in this new patch, that even the tutorial has been revised, so that now one must translate the geometry, then join each and every entity individually. This is a bit backward, don’t you think? Not that I use that function very often, but I do use it (in my 2D program, MasterCAM Router).
HFD's reply
Yes, I noticed that discrepancy between the tutorial and the way things actually were. Maybe it was a buggy function?
In most cases, can you not accomplish more by using the extruded surface function to do the translation? This way you end up with a solid, and there is no need to fool around making surfaces on the sides you are joining?
Mlinder
That's what I did - just use extrude. The only thing is extrude doesn't seem to extrude holes (360 degree arcs). Maybe I'm missing something there.
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