Wire-frame with surfaces ?

[goØn]

hi guys,

 

I was working in CAD wire-frame and I'm drawing a small plate

 

230*60*15, is there any way to turn this into a solid object or add edges to it, so it appears as 1 object?

 

I realise you can draw a simple 2d line and extrude the edges but what i want to know is can you add surfaces to the wire frame

 

 

 

 

Thanks

[MSasu]

You may try the BOX command or draw a 230x60 rectangle and use EXTRUDE on it.

 

Regards,

Mircea

[goØn]

Thanks Mircea,

 

The BOX command worked perfect, I'm not new to drawing in auto-cad but I'm not familiar with the command line in 3D, its something I am looking into

 

Below command worked perfect

 

[b]BOX[/b]
Specify first corner or [Center]: 0
Specify other corner or [Cube/Length]: 260
Specify height or [2Point] <15.0000>: 15

 

Thanks

[MSasu]

To draw the shape from your OP you may try:

 

Specify first corner or [Center]: [i][color=blue]pick a point[/color][/i]
Specify other corner or [Cube/Length]: @230,60,15

 

Or:

Specify first corner or [Center]: [i][color=blue]pick a point[/color][/i]
Specify other corner or [Cube/Length]: @230,60
Specify height or [2Point] <15.0000>: 15

 

Regards,

Mircea

[ReMark]

Draw a rectangle and either EXTRUDE it or use the PRESSPULL command to give it some height.

[goØn]

Thanks, some really useful answers there

[JD Mather]

If you are doing walls - polysolid might be another option.

[goØn]

Hi JD,

 

I'm not doing walls its more for steel plates,

 

Thanks for your input though much appreciated

 

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[JD Mather]

Hi JD,

 

I'm not doing walls its more for steel plates,

 

Thanks for your input though much appreciated

 

:0

 

Is that 1 steel plate or several?

In any case it doesn't matter - a steel plate is a wall.

Draw 1 line length and polysolid it width and height . Done with your plate.

[nestly]

Polysolid is not something I've used before. I don't think I'd use it for drawing single plates (BOX or even PRESS/PULL may be faster, but if I was drawing several plates/walls with similar dimensions, it could definitely save significant time.

[JD Mather]

Polysolid is not something I've used before. I don't think I'd use it for drawing single plates (BOX or even PRESS/PULL may be faster, but if I was drawing several plates/walls with similar dimensions, it could definitely save significant time.

 

Your right if one off because of having to set the thickness (not sure if that stays from session to session or if it stays in a template).

But for someone doing a lot of plates if it saves the thickness in the template it could be a fast way to create plates.

Simply start from appropriate template - draw single lines for plate lengths and polysolid them.

This would be similar to using the Sheet Metal tools in Inventor. (of course sheet is sheet - constant thickness material, so it doesn't matter what the material is)

[goØn]

Some good points all-round there, (a wall IS a plate now i think about it hahahah so simple yet...) thanks for that I could do it this way now, for me the plates are usually all similer but the dimensions vary slightly, i work with beams, supports the plates are use for fixing 1 to another

 

Thanks

 

goØn

[nestly]

If you work with steel shapes a lot, you may be interested in something like this. (yes, it's free)

 

http://screencast.com/t/0sVGk7cnPc

[goØn]

Awsome, downloading it now, going to give it a whirl, Kudos