Hi all, I have a newbie question as I cannot imagine this is not possible in such a great peace of Software as Rhino. I am using Rhino v5.
So I have a solid and I want to extrude some faces from it (see image 1), but I don’t want to extrude them each, since it is going to take too much time later on (image is just a mock). I tried to select them all and extrude them, but when I set the direction, they all go in that direction (obviously) and I want them to go “in all directions in that way” - so in direction of their normals (see image 2) and for the exact same distance.
I bet there is a really simple trick to this, for example in maya you have the option “keep faces together” when extruding faces of a solid. I am looking for a command that does pretty much the same if possible. Thanks for your attention!
Hi pascal, thanks so much for quickly looking into my problem!
OffsetSrf does the job for one part, but the rest is still a little bit of a problem. Maybe I was a bit unclear, yeah. So the problem is, what I wanted to say, that I can not get the offsets to be kept together - as with for example Maya command “keep faces together”:
In my case what I want, is to have it like I drew (red dots):
Is there a way to do this in one “move”? I know I can now just move one face to another, but I would rather see if there is a trick to do that
Hi Blaz - If you join the surfaces before offsetting,they will stay together. Does that do it? (i.e. it sounds like you want to offset, say a box, to be a bigger box, not six shallow boxes sticking out from the original faces.
Thanks a lot guys, I was wrong with the workflow how I wanted to achieve a certain result, but with your help I got now and it is giving me the results I want to have. Thanks so much!
Just a side question: are there known bugs with first a 0.05m extrudecrv and then offsetsrf from that extrusion for 0.05m, (“outside”, straight corner), since I am getting some strange geometry only with this “settings”, everything else is working fine…
