Hi,
I accidentally copy pasted my walls and a few polylines by accident, but I don’t want to go through and click and delete the “copy” for my entire building.
Is there a command that enables you to delete those accidental copies of the original?
I have an example of what I mean attached in the picture.
Hi
Perhaps try the command Select Duplicates, they will highlight then delete all of them in one go.
Akash
For some reason, I don’t have those options. You can tell step by step what my options are again. Thank you for your consistent help
@sns2 Use SelDup (not SelDupAll) to select duplicates for deleting.
SelDup selects duplicate copies, but does not select one of the duplicates.
SelDup then Delete will leave one copy of everthing.
SelDupAll then Delete will delete all copies of any objects which have duplicates.
If or when something similar happens in the future and you realize it immediately after it happens, you can use Undo to go back.
thanks for fixing my error I should have checked before posting
Akash
Hi,
Instead of creating what seems like open extrusions as walls, I’d extrude as solids. This will make joining walls, cutting out door or window openings, etc. much more straightforward.
If after joining two or more walls with a Boolean union, you can clean up situations like this with MergeAllCoplanarFaces.
That actually sounds pretty interesting. Unfortunately, I have already done most of my walls, windows, and floors as extrusions and used “cap” to cover them. But I do think I could apply this from here on out.
I just a few additional questions as I really appreciate your detailed help.
Hi
MergeAllFaces. you can think of Faces as individual surfaces that are joined to other surfaces, [creating a polysurface].
And about Boolean union… Perhaps it will be best if you like to open the side Help panel, [click on the gear in the panels top right [at least on the Mac it is there] and select the help panel.
that way every command that you start will change that help panel to that command. in simplified terms: the boolean union will make one object from two objects [or more] that are overlapping,
Akash
A Boolean union is joining two or more intersecting, individual solid objects (left) into one (right), while deleting intersecting geometry parts. There are still other Boolean operatiions (cf. wiki).
Usually yes, because when a polysurface is open, Rhino is unable to determine where is outside and inside, which is necessary to determine where for instance two or more objects intersect.
You can trim, split, etc. open polysurfaces though, which is generally a slower approach, since there are more steps involved.
MergeAllCoplanarFaces was introduced in Rhino 7. Do you maybe have an older version?
