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Old 7th November 2018, 05:57 PM   #1
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Default How to translate and snap a selected surface

Hello,

I used a lot Sketchup but plan to move the AC3D.

A great Sketchup functionality is to be able to 'autodetect' where you want to move an object / surface.

For the example attached, from where i copied the selected surface, i could very easily move the new surface to its destination location and automatically snap to the destination vertex.

How can i do this with AC3D? Sorry if the question is trivial but i did not find a easy way.

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Chris
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Old 8th November 2018, 08:19 AM   #2
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Select a vertex from the new surface/object, then shift-select one from the new location. Then use Menu Vertex->Snap-objects-by-vertices to move the first surface (which must be in a new object BTW) to the second vertex.
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Old 8th November 2018, 08:21 AM   #3
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If you just want a new surface lined up with the side of the door, select the two vertices at the top/bottom of the door and then Vertex->Extrude edges. Then you can pull out the new surface.
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Thank you for your help.

However it did not work.I selected one vertice in the main object and one at the destination then "Vertex->Snap-objects-by-vertices" and got an error.

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Perhaps those surface belong to the main object?


Select the two white triangles and then Surface->Cut-away-object to put them in an object.
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Old 9th November 2018, 02:52 PM   #6
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Perhaps those surface belong to the main object?


Select the two white triangles and then Surface->Cut-away-object to put them in an object.
I have done "Cut-away-object" then select a vertice on the object i want to move and a vertice on "destination" then "Vertex->Snap-objects-by-vertices" and got the same error: "select 2 vertices"

I really a running out of ideas to do this simple operation :-(

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Old 9th November 2018, 05:07 PM   #7
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At the top of the image, you can see that it says there are 3 vertices selected.


You may have extra vertices in the model or you may be slightly moving the mouse when clicking (clicking should only select the closest).


Watch the text at the top to see when you are selecting the vertices.


Perhaps do an Object->Optimize-vertices on the model and see if that removes any duplicate vertices.
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Old 9th November 2018, 05:49 PM   #8
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At the top of the image, you can see that it says there are 3 vertices selected.


You may have extra vertices in the model or you may be slightly moving the mouse when clicking (clicking should only select the closest).


Watch the text at the top to see when you are selecting the vertices.


Perhaps do an Object->Optimize-vertices on the model and see if that removes any duplicate vertices.
"Object->Optimize-vertices" removed more than 2000 vertices... Do you think it is X-plane export from Sketchup that could have cause this problem?

And then i finish the move & snap operation smoothly. Thank you very much !

Chris

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