Could use some help connecting a setvof curves to a line, pic included

Nope · April 14, 2024, 3:03am

I’m trying to convert a chair back I made into carbide.

Everything was working out great until I had to start using the curves function…which while cool its not allowing me to “connect” it to the reast of the chair.

I was trying to bolean sub the curved part(in magenta) into the rest of the design to make it one piece like I did the rest…but the bolean option is gone when I select my curved lines and the straight rest of the chair.

I know I can go in and use a bunch of circles and modify the nodes, and stretch them into shape…but im hoping theres an easier way.

I’m still pretty new to all this, got my machine tuesday.

mhotchin · April 14, 2024, 4:13am

Post your C2D file. It’s way easier to work through it with your file instead of trying to just
imagine the directions to give you.

WillAdams · April 14, 2024, 11:33am

You will need to draw the complete geometry using the Curve tool, or to duplicate some existing geometry and modify it so that it is then open and coincides with the ends of the open geometry.

If you will post your .c2d file we can walk through this with you.

Nope · April 14, 2024, 2:52pm

FlatPackChair ver.1.c2d (104 KB)

Heres the file.

WillAdams · April 14, 2024, 3:12pm

The easiest way to close this is to edit the two areas so that they are closed:

Join Vectors:

and again so as to close things:

Then Node Edit the geometry which one wishes to join it with:

So that they overlap.

Done

Select both pieces of geometry:

Use Trim Vectors:

to remove the overlapping regions:

OK

Use Join Vectors again:

Node Edit to clean things up, or draw in geometry which Trim Vectors may be used with:

OK

Join Vectors again:

and delete what is left over:

Attached as a v7 file:

FlatPackChair ver.1_v7.c2d (116 KB)

Nope · April 14, 2024, 7:42pm

Sweet, thanks. I got it to work.

Although in your 16th screen shot I was missing the top left vertex ir node in blue when I made my new 22x2 rectangle. Not sure why.
I just moved some stuff around and got it.

Tod1d · April 15, 2024, 11:06am

My first instinct would be to add vectors to close the shape

Join the upper shape & subtract