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polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

I have a box that fills a space from 0,0,0 to 3,3,3 which makes a cube that is 3x3x3.

Normally in a cube, the top face on this box would go from, 0,3,0 to 3,3,3.

I want to move the top face from that position to

1,3,0 to 4,3,3.

Basically I want to shift the top face over one place on the x axis.

How do I do this?


--Matt
06-27-2004 Over year old.
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cforcht
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Location: Chelsea in BFE Iowa

are you drawing solid or wire frame



[b]heli flyer by day, custom making cnc heli parts by night[/b]
06-28-2004 Over year old.
 
 
polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

wire frame

autocad 2000


--Matt
06-28-2004 Over year old.
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polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

OK, well let me change my question then....

Where can I find autocad tutorials online. When I do a search, all I get is training courses for autocad.

I'm looking for 3D tutorials.


--Matt
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TMoore
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Location: Cookeville, TN

You will probably have to explode the entities, select them individually and then do a transform.

Terry
06-28-2004 Over year old.
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cforcht
Key Veteran
Location: Chelsea in BFE Iowa

try what terry said. im not sure what to tell you i usually draw 3d in solid instead of wire frame. its easier for me but what i do in 3d ive learned on my own. you can usually find autocad books at the local book store but they are usually spendy. but sometimes a valuable tool when you get stuck



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06-28-2004 Over year old.
 
 
Xtrem3D
Heliman
Location: Barcelona

better with solid works!
06-28-2004 Over year old.
 
 
TMoore
rrProfessor
Location: Cookeville, TN

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better with solidworks!


Before solids, the only thing that existed was wire frame. Solids isn't the end-all be-all. There are many things that are just as easy to create in the wire frame world. Why would you want to create a flat main frame with solid works when you only need to drill holes and mill the outside to create them?

Example: A pilot brings me a rotor hub from a Vigor and wants the center flybar slot neatly cleared out with a ballnose endmill to facilitate a higher tilt to the carrier. Do I really need solid modeling tools to create 2 surfaces with an intersecting .5mm constant rad?

Learning the basics in design is paramount to success in the machining or design world. In the custom manufacturing world, tutorials cost money, videos cost money, software cost money, and machine time costs money. The men and women that work in this arena are very wary of giving up a lot for free. Ask cforcht how much his machine tool cost?

Buying a $100.00 book to learn to run a $4,000.00 piece of software is pretty cheap in my mind.

Terry
06-28-2004 Over year old.
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Diver66
Heliman
Location: Odessa, Texas

Shifting Top Face

Polyhedron,

I found your thread this morning and you probable have figured out how to move this face. I am an instructor for AutoCAD Advanced class at a local Jr. College. If you are looking for tutorial sites try writting "AutoCAD 3d forums" in your search engines. You will find alot, probably more than you want, of tutorials on this subject.

To move this top face use the "Move" command.
1. First the command prompt will ask you to "Select objects:" you will select the four top lines that represent the top face.
2. Then the command prompt it will ask you "Specify base location" enter 0,0,3, which is the top point @ 0(x),0(y),3(z) and hit enter key.
3. Next it will ask you to "Specify second point of displacement or :" enter 1,0,3, which is the location you want to move to 1(x),0(y),3(z). This will shift the entire top box +1 in the x-axis.

Hope this helps. If you decide to buy a book we use
AutoCAD 2005 Instructor
James A. Leach
isbn 0-07-252862-1
They make this book for all releses. It is the best we have found to discuss all aspect of AutoCAD. Lern the basics first and it will end alot of frustrations that most people have with 3D CAD drawing.

Barry

15 year CAD, new heli
08-08-2004 Over year old.
 
 
polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

Thanks,

I never really found a way to do exactly this, I just found a work around using extrusions.

I'll try your method though, and look into the book.

Matt


--Matt
08-08-2004 Over year old.
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Keith-Ice
Heliman
Location: Varies

Face Shift

Matt,
I am just trying to understand. you want to move the top face over one unit, thus skewing your box, or just have the top face offset to one side?
If you are going to skew the box, I would just use the stretch command.
I find that the AutoCAD Bible is a good book for reference as well.

Thanks,
Keith
08-25-2004 Over year old.
 
 
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