Shape Merge

[glorybound]

I have always fought with this... when I do a cookie cutter shapemerge how do you select the poly's of the shape? I used to be able to do it my converting it to a polymesh and going to the sub object. The shape I merged would be highlighted. Not now.

[RErender]

Have you checked the appropriate Output sub-mesh type?

[glorybound]

Sub-Mesh

I picked face. It seems Vertex is working, but it isn't what I need.

[RErender]

hmm, is you spline all welded cleanly, any double segs or overlaps?

[glorybound]

Spline

Everything looks good. The function seems to work and I can manually select the faces.

[glorybound]

Spline

I tried a rectangle and everything worked as planned. It is an Autocad import so it is probably a bad spline.

[Morne]

try importing the autocad as legacy autocad and see if that helps

[sea2stars]

I'll have issues with AutoCAD splines too, from time to time. Sometimes running Shape Check from the Utilities helps to show the offending issue.

[Neilg]

I dont think i've ever used an imported spline for something like this.

Much effort to turn 2.5d snap on and re-draw? That should work, at least.

[glorybound]

2d snap

This is how I handles it. I redrew it, but not the ideal. I'll try that Shape Check from the Utilities tip

[jonahhawk]

Autocad has a command called Overkill that will remove any overlapping lines. It is a good first step. Explode everything, then overkill, then poly join again.

[glorybound]

overkill

I use that often.

[voltron7]

I also like to make sure in AutoCAD all the stuff is at elev zero...hth

[glorybound]

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That would be the flatten command