3d stretch

[RyanAtNelco]

Is there a way to stretch in 3d?

[JD Mather]

Ctrl select

[papagyi]

What version you use?

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

Ryan, I would give my left cheek (either one) for such a command.

 

 

Papagyi, I am using 2004, and JD, what do you mean ctrl select?

[papagyi]

Ok..you can type in command for ..

Command: solidedit

 

Solids editing automatic checking: SOLIDCHECK=1

Enter a solids editing option [Face/Edge/Body/Undo/eXit] : f

 

Enter a face editing option

[Extrude/Move/Rotate/Offset/Taper/Delete/Copy/coLor/mAterial/Undo/eXit] :

You can use ...extrude,move,offset for solid stretch!..

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

Thanks, that's quite helpful actually! I can see how this would work for a simple solid such as a cube, but what about for something like the attached file?

 

That's a crane end bogey. It's a piece of RHS with some of the bottom flange ground out (for wheels) and two holes in the side (one for wheel axle, one for pinion). These come in varying lenths. If I wanted to stretch the object from the middle of the RHS and keep the cutouts as they appear (so, essentially what a 2D stretch does), could I do that? Or do I have to start from scratch again?

End carriage 3D.pdf

[papagyi]

Through my experience,you can use "move" option from "solidedit".

But you must type "c" for cross selection ..then you can select

to stretch like as 2d!...pls try test first for simple box solid!

Then you can do for your attach image!

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

Through my experience,you can use "move" option from "solidedit".

But you must type "c" for cross selection ..then you can select

to stretch like as 2d!...pls try test first for simple box solid!

Then you can do for your attach image!

 

 

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I don't get it.

 

 

I got up to the cross selection bit, but nothing happens when I try to stretch.

 

If I stretch my cube, it says "Modelling Operation Error: no solution for a vertex", and if I try to stretch my bogey, it says "Modelling Operation Error: No loop through new edges and vertices".

 

 

I don't speak Autocad error. I know what a vertex is but I don't understand what the message means.

[papagyi]

ok..fri..check it..this tutorial...http://www.cadopolis.com/autocad_addons/quick-draw-3d-stretch.shtml

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

I think that's a product, not a tutorial. Looks like a handy product though, maybe I'll ask the company if we can buy it.

 

But sadly, the very existence of this product is fairly convincing evidence that this function does not typically exist in Autocad.

[papagyi]

no fri..I means ..."solidedit" enter "f" enter "m" enter "C" enter ..then..

do like this GIF image tutorials!

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

At the risk of sounding a little dim...

 

 

 

 

You lost me.

 

 

 

 

What GIF tutorial?

 

I already tried those commands on my cube... came up with the vertex error...

 

 

Aargh 4:30 on a Thursday is not a great time to think.

[stevsmith]

On the link papagyi has supplied above, there is a small motion video showing a 3d stretch in action. (this is only for an example for what you ar looking to achieve.)

 

Use the command solidedit and follow the instructions papagyi has givn you.

[Rock'n'roll Draughtsman]

On the link papagyi has supplied above, there is a small motion video showing a 3d stretch in action. (this is only for an example for what you ar looking to achieve.)

 

Use the command solidedit and follow the instructions papagyi has givn you.

 

The motion video shows the product it is advertising in action - not a normal CAD function.

 

I did follow those instructions, and then posted the resulting error messages.