ouch, 3 days of LinearExtrusion fun wasted!  :))

Fabrice

On May 13, 2011, at 11:37 PM, mobstar07 wrote:

> Ah damn, that's commited 3 days ago :) Time to update!
> Many thanks!
> 
> On 13 mei, 23:26, Fabrice3D <[email protected]> wrote:
>> yes there is! + example too!
>> 
>> Fabrice
>> 
>> On May 13, 2011, at 11:07 PM, mobstar07 wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the response!
>> 
>>> So my idea of starting with a new Mesh, generate faces and extrude it
>>> is the way to go?
>>> For now I will fiddle around with the 3.6 release, since there's no
>>> LinearExtrusion class in the Broomstick release yet.
>>> Any progress on this? Fabrice, David?
>> 
>>> On 13 mei, 21:11, wagster <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I had a similar problem procedurally generating walls - found the
>>>> LinearExtrusion class.  Perfect for building walls.  Might take a bit
>>>> of experimenting but it's definitely the right place to start.
>> 
>>>> On May 13, 8:53 am, mobstar07 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> For an upcoming project I need to create walls where a user can add
>>>>> different sized openings for windows and doors. Everything must be
>>>>> dynamic, so no fixed dimensions, positions and amounts of openings.
>>>>> I was thinking of the following ways to achieve this:
>> 
>>>>> - create all faces manually, add 'm to a mesh and extrude it to give
>>>>> the wall some thickness (hell of a job I guess)
>>>>> - create a solid wall and punch out the intersecting windows and doors
>>>>> (like the subtract/union functions in several 3D apps)
>>>>> - create all the outlines with polylines and extrude them to a certain
>>>>> wall thickness
>> 
>>>>> Probably bad ideas. Can this be done in Away3D? If so, whats the best
>>>>> way to achieve this?
>> 
>>>>> The crappy view underneath illustrates the issue a bit. The 'x' is the
>>>>> position for an opening.
>>>>> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>>>>> |       |      |      |      |       |      |
>>>>> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>>>>> |       |  x  |      |   x  |   x  |      |
>>>>> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>>>>> |       |      |      |       |      |      |
>>>>> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>>>>> |       |   x  |      |      |      |      |
>>>>> +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>> 
>>>>> Greetings!

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