Mason Dixon Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Drew a rectangle using Line command and then chose to extrude it a certain distance. When I went to turn it using shift key and middle mouse button it looks like the extruded faces have this grid pattern on them, how do I turn that off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secretagdan Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 You need to have a closed polyline before you extrued to make a proper solid. If you extrude regular lines, you will get the 'grid' that you are seeing in your model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy J Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Ditto, having gone from 2D to 3D this past year myself, I learned quickly to stop using the line command in most cases. The Rectangle command allows you to enter the size of your rectangle with a few keystrokes. Better yet, if you know how far you want to extrude the rectangle, you an use the Box command and get the whole 3D solid object in one step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCAD Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 PRESSPULL is your friend. If you have a profile made of lines, polylines, circles, splines, etc. it will recognize the boundary of whatever you're trying to extrude. They don't have to be closed. It may not work in all cases, but something simple like this will be no problem for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Assuming you are following some sort of tutorial you will probably want to become familiar with the polyline edit command. PE Enter select line or arc follow prompts on command line j for join Enter select remaining edges F1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADTutor Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 You will find this tutorial very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy J Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 PRESSPULL is your friend. If you have a profile made of lines, polylines, circles, splines, etc. it will recognize the boundary of whatever you're trying to extrude. They don't have to be closed. It may not work in all cases, but something simple like this will be no problem for it. Agreed, but I am back using 2002 and PRESSPULL was not part of that release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCAD Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Dude, that sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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