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How to split a drawing on lines and transform the resulting pieces
dave_mankoff
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I have a square. The square has several splines running vertically through it, dividing it into strips.
I want to "explode" these strips into independent shapes.
I can do this by copying and pasting all the various lines, then tediously going through and reassigning constraints, but there are a lot of constraints and this feels very error prone.
Is there a way to directly select lines in a drawing and say "transform and make a copy" such that I only need to specify the distance and direction of the transform?
Put visually, how do I turn the first drawing into the second efficiently (and maintain being fully constrained)?
I want to "explode" these strips into independent shapes.
I can do this by copying and pasting all the various lines, then tediously going through and reassigning constraints, but there are a lot of constraints and this feels very error prone.
Is there a way to directly select lines in a drawing and say "transform and make a copy" such that I only need to specify the distance and direction of the transform?
Put visually, how do I turn the first drawing into the second efficiently (and maintain being fully constrained)?
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It would be pretty easy to make a surface, and then split it with whatever curves you want, then transform the pieces.
Or you could extrude a bunch of faces independently from the same sketch, each making a new part, and then transform the parts as needed.