aji2015 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Hello all, I've created a box shape to represent a channel, which has then been extruded along a path. The client now say they want a circular shape to represent a cable instead of a box shape to represent a channel. So, is there an easy way to change a box shape path extrusion in to a circular shaped path extrusion? (I have many of these path extrusions to change, if it was only one I'd simply re-do it from scratch, but there are loads of them to change). Cheers for any suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 As far as I know, you can't change the shape of the object after it has been extruded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammobake Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 If you aren't allowed to go back and extrude new circular primitives I guess one option would be to use the 3d modeling tools to fillet all 4 corners. I guess if that's all you can do... -ChriS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 5 hours ago, ammobake said: If you aren't allowed to go back and extrude new circular primitives I guess one option would be to use the 3d modeling tools to fillet all 4 corners. I guess if that's all you can do... -ChriS That certainly would be a tedious way to go about it, as I'm sure ammobake would agree. I would vote for redoing them, painful as that sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammobake Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Yessir that would be the logical route lol. I guess the full extent of the heartache would depend on how many there are in total. Are they all the same extrude height or are they all different - etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 1st up do little in solids but made a solid using path, did erase original pline and object and path was retained. Now need a find a group of objects say a pline with certain shape replace with new shape then extrude again. I can see all sorts of problems with UCS etc. Replacing a circle is probably the easiest. I think it was Marco Ribar had a find pattern lisp. Using the Normal values may give hints of converting the co-ords to a planar answer. So a flat shape can be compared to a rotate3d shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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