Slice plane problem

[Anonymous]

Hi there.

I'm having a small but hugely irritating problem! I'm creating different wooden decorations for some walls and they need a 45 degree cut in the corners. When i use the rotation tool on the slice plane 0, 90 and 180 degrees works correct BUT 45 is not equally between 0 and 90. I have to be around 67,5 or so and it's still not correct! I have used it earlier with the same workaround and it worked correctly but now...
Here's what i'm doing:

1) I create a spline with the "line" tool.

2) I add the extrude modifier with f.ex. 50 cm.

3) I then convert it to an editable poly.

4) I turn on the slice plane to cut the end of in a 45 degree angle and then..... 😞

Any qualified guess is very welcome and i will be deeply grateful - thankyou!

BR
Henrik Mark

[valenRedBull]

Can you upload some images or your scene file?

[Anonymous]

You should post your own example file(zipped) in this case, since I think there is more to it then the steps you provided. In the mean time, try pressing the Reset Plane button, see if that helps. As for the steps you provided, I get a 45 degree cut every time. The only way I can make it not work is if I rotate the object in sub-object mode, then it will still be a 45 degree cut in world space, but not object space. You could adjust the pivot so it's got the same rotation as your object, then use the slice plane and reset plane, see if that works.

MP

[Anonymous]

Hi both of you and thank you!

It used to work for me also but then i must have messed something up.
However i created a new scene with all my objects and now it works right again!

I'm usually hanging on to find a solution for my problems but after 3 hours i thought it was time to bring in help from outside 🙂

It's hard to be a novice but d*** exciting as well - you'll probably hear from me again 🙂

Thanks again!

-Henrik

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I ran into the same problem, I must say it's a very very frustrating issue !! And finally I ended up here...

So after long minutes of brain masturbation, I just realised that I had used the scale tool on only one axis in the object space, so in sub-object space, 45° was distorded...

Solution for the next to come here with the same problem : Reset XForm !