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How did I do it

wndws10e — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:41:57 GMT

hello!
please help me remember how I did it!
I drew a flower from cubes 5*5*5 , painted some cubes yellow, then applied some command and turned out a three-dimensional colored flower.
what command did I use?

Re: How did I do it

paullimapa — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:59:12 GMT

share your dwg file here for community to investigate

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:07:51 GMT

I cannt attach file. it size 192 Mb, maximum size here 71.

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/AEgw/e2gvVA6Vj

follow to download

Re: How did I do it

TheCADnoob — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 21:48:33 GMT

Perhaps union?

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-C38426A3-B4CA-4788-A6B9-F132DD705CA0

Re: How did I do it

paullimapa — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:10:54 GMT

looks like you created one of these 3dSolid objects:

Then you might have done a Polar Array & now you have a total of 3792 of them:

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:52:10 GMT

could you describe in detail the procedure for creating this object from 4294 cubes. I am attaching the source file.

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:01:03 GMT

if I use union, then the body turns out to be empty.

Re: How did I do it

paullimapa — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:12:03 GMT

Try the MeshSmooth command

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:43:18 GMT

i dont uderstand. i try union to mesh but it not work.

Re: How did I do it

paullimapa — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:59:04 GMT

glad you figured it out...cheers!!!

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:44:39 GMT

i need your help, it didnt work(

Re: How did I do it

paullimapa — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 01:26:34 GMT

All I can tell you is what I'm observing from your now 3d color flower drawing vs your original Source dwg.

They both have a total of not 4294 cubes as you stated but actually only 3792 cubes as I've stated.

The 3d color flower drawing shows one of those objects with your 5x5x5 cube in the center and then surrounded with a number of other objects that makes up a much larger object but still it's classified as a single 3D Solid:

The source drawing shows your 5x5x5 cube again as a 3D Solid object but only at 5x5x5 without any of the surrounding geometry:

At first I thought the use of the MeshSmooth command is the answer. But that changes the object to a Mesh and no longer keeps it as a 3D Solid. On top of that it doesn't add any other geometry around the object to make it any larger in size:

So I'm at a loss as what single command you may have executed that would have given you from a 5x5x5 source 3D Solid to the now much larger 3D Solid object.

Re: How did I do it

wndws10e — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:24:09 GMT

Paul, thank you a lot! I must to think about it...