DupFaceBorder From Surface That touches the Construction Plane

Scripting
1

Is there a way to find the surface (from a closed polysurface) that touches the contruction plane and run the command “DupFaceBorder” on it?

I do not want to manually select the surface.

I want a routine that will cycle through the faces and programatically select the surface that touches the construction plane and run DupFaceBorder it.

DupFaceBorder
DupFaceBorder1412×751 259 KB

2

You might try running the Intersect command, and creating an infinite plane on the active CPlane while in the command -

Intersect
IP
CPlaneXY
Select your objects and Enter

3

Thanks. They may work.

Eric

4

Could you give me a little more insight as to how this could work? I tried walking through this manually using the command line and when I input “IP” I get and unknown command error.

Eric

5

Are you running V5 or V6? The IP is only available in V6.

6

Version 5 and 6. I have users using both. I did get it to work in 6 and it works well. For Version 5 I may have to construct a temporary surface to use to get the intersection and then delete it. If you have another work around for 5 let me know. Thanks for the help.

Eric

7

You can try this script, should work in V5 or V6 or later…

IntersectVolumesWCPlane2.py (3.7 KB)

8

It absolutely does. Thank you so much.

Eric