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| Posted by Keet at Oct 20, 2025, 3:20:20 PM |
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Re: Create a solid Shape Generally you create 'weird' shapes by resizing and combining basic shapes like box, cylinder, triangle etc. You can make sides invisible if they are in the way or invisible because they are 'inside' another shape. My DodecagonShapes library offers many other shapes you might find useful. You can also use walls and rooms and export/import these. That allows you to create shapes using curved walls. After import you can adjust the height. If you use a room to create a shape then make sure you un-check the ceiling before export and make sure you do this on a extra level that has an elevation >0. The floor thickness of that will be the height of the created object but you can still change it after import. Another way to get other shapes is to find a model that has that shape as a part of it. Make all parts invisible except the part you want to extract. Export/import and you have that part as a new object. You can select multiple shapes and export them together, after import you have a single object in the created shape. Of course you can include and combine shapes that you created with any of them mentioned methods above. If you want a single material name for that combined object you can edit the obj and mtl files: in the object file change the material name of the first occurrence of "usemtl <name>' to the name you want. Remove all lines starting with 'g ' and 'usemtl ' except the first occurrence (the two lines at the top after the description lines). Edit the mtl file and remove all black starting with 'newmtl <name>" except the first one. Set the name after 'newmtl' to the name you used in the obj file. Of course you can also create objects in another program like Blender and export it as obj file. This you can import in Sweet Home 3D. If you can show us an image we can advise you better. Upload an image to an image host like mediafire or imgur and post the download url in your forum post. ---------------------------------------- Dodecagon.nl 1300+ 3D models, manuals, and projects |
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