Extrude Tools: by Projection to Entity Face

Description

Extrudes selected nodes, beams, plates and brick faces by projecting them onto target entities in a specified direction.

Nodes are extruded into beams or links, beams are extruded into plates, and plates or brick faces are extruded into bricks.

Plate elements, brick faces or geometry faces can be considered as targets.

Projection is undertaken on a node by node basis and the result depends on both the source and how the target direction is defined, as described in Tools: Project to Entity Face.

Dialog

Targets

The target entities considered when projecting.

All plates

All plate elements in the model are considered as targets.
All bricks

All brick faces in the model are considered as targets.
All faces

All geometry faces in the model are considered as targets.
All plates, bricks and faces

All plate elements, brick faces and geometry faces are considered as targets.
Specified

Specified plate elements, brick faces and geometry faces are considered as targets. Specified entities are displayed in the target list.

Entity numbers in the target list can be manually entered, pasted from the clipboard or assigned based on currently selected entities (using Assign Selected).

When the target list is highlighted, a hot pointer is available to click and select target entities from the model window.

Duplicates, if entered, do not affect the outcome as each entity is only considered once.

Clear

Clears the target list.

Assign Selected

Assigns currently selected plate elements, brick faces and geometry faces to the target list.

Done

Exits the hot pointer selection mode.

Consider hidden targets

If set, all candidate target surfaces are considered, even if they are hidden. If not set, hidden entities are not considered.

Direction

Projection direction. Both positive and negative directions are considered for each case.

Source (Plate) Normal

Direction is defined by the average normal of all plate elements connected to the source node.

Only applicable to nodes on plate elements. If the source node does not have plates attached, the direction is undefined and no projection is applied.
Conical

Direction is defined by the vector from the Apex point to the source node.
Parallel P1 / P2

Direction is defined by the vector from point P1 to point P2.

Common Controls