Hello,
Thank you to all those members on this forum that take time to help novice users like me.
I am drafting a personal project, where I have to level a badly slanted floor and want to calculate the volume of material required, however I can't figure out how to do this on Autocad 2017
I figured if I managed to create a 3Dsolid I would be able to use MASSPROP but I have not figured it out yet.
The area is 6m x 4m and the levels of each corners (clock wise direction) are
1 reference
2 -5cm
3 -24cm
4 -21cm
So I want to calculate how much material I need to level this off.
I tried making a 3D box and stretching the corners but it does not let me
I tried drafting the perimeter with lines with a Z value and I was able to draft it but I can't use the slice command to cut the box. Tried joining the inclined lines and also tried 3Dpolylines. None of these work with the slice command.
I know there must be a way to get this done but I have spent several hours googling this and I can't seem to find out how.
Is it possible to use a rectangular planar object that has different Z values in each corner as a slicing plane or any other way to achieve what I am trying to do?
Thank you
3D slice
Re: 3D slice
It would help us if you share a file that shows what you have tried so far, able in the Full Editor & Preview button below a reply.
Do you want to add material to fill the floor and make it level, or do you want to remove material from the floor to produce a level surface?
Do you want something level, or something flat? These are easily confused and misspoken. I used to work on floors. I never asserted to produce level floors. I made flat floors. Level has to do with foundations, framing, and other building aspects which I have no control over.
You can use the Split command upon a Body with a Reference Geometry Plane as its cutting entity, to 'slice' through an object. You can then use Mass Properties on the resultant body to find what I understand you are looking for.
Do you want to add material to fill the floor and make it level, or do you want to remove material from the floor to produce a level surface?
Do you want something level, or something flat? These are easily confused and misspoken. I used to work on floors. I never asserted to produce level floors. I made flat floors. Level has to do with foundations, framing, and other building aspects which I have no control over.
You can use the Split command upon a Body with a Reference Geometry Plane as its cutting entity, to 'slice' through an object. You can then use Mass Properties on the resultant body to find what I understand you are looking for.
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Re: 3D slice
See the attached GIF video for how I would do it in Solidworks.
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Edit: The original video has been sacked, I replaced the video with a better resolution one.
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Edit: The original video has been sacked, I replaced the video with a better resolution one.
Edit2: The previous video that sacked the original video, has been sacked. It has been replaced with a better resolution one.
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