BOX CENTERLINE

hey there,
is there any definition to take out all the centerlines for all of these steel structures.
this steel structure has a rectangular profile everywhere.

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on February 25, 2013 at 7:31am

hihi, I like this one :-)

Permalink Reply by Mu_ on February 25, 2013 at 10:15am

Guys, what about if I want to do this inverse? I mean if I've the centerlines, can I run along them the profile i want, let's say 100*100mm

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on February 25, 2013 at 11:54am

yes, of course. There are definitely some potential issues, though. The key is that you'll have to orient your construction plane along the centerline. This is pretty easy when the frames you're trying to build are always plumb and non-vertical. In this case, you can create perpendicular frames along the centerline...you'd probably want to rotate their x-axis to to the world z...this way you'd always be able to define your width along the y axis and depth along the x axis of your rotated planes. When you're not trying to make your frames plumb, or if you're trying to also construct elements that are vertical, you'll have to be able to manage the axes of your construction planes. With a standard grid oriented on the world xy plane, this isn't an issue with columns (you can just re-orient an XY Plane and you're good to go).

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 25, 2013 at 11:26am

Now that's a thing of beauty.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on February 25, 2013 at 12:18pm

I would just add "RemDup" and erase duplicating vertices - sometimes the input geometry could be not as clean as box is. Anyway, this is one of the most elegant def on this forum ;)

Permalink Reply by raul higuera on August 20, 2019 at 2:43pm