Combine cut a component from another complex component of components...

[laurent.chenet]

Hello,

So, I'm probably still low on my learning curve, but yet I was already happy where I got, but I'm stuck at this very step.

I have a spiral based design. Itself based on a spring of course. And now I have to cut "windows" on the walls. I tried pattern on path but that would rotate the cutting shapes so that they loose their "horizontality". Then I decided to do a pattern on circle, and I started to move up the remaining 15 windows (on 16) to get my first loop correclty. I then made these 16 components a 'floor' component which I copied two times for each of theù 3 "floors" in a final component. 

With history tracking, I'm very happy that I can change the shape of the initial "window" shape and that it would reflect on all of them. 

Bu I'm stuck with the cutting. I need the "green" to cut the "brown". And I cannot combine the "super component" with it. Is there a trick in the timeline that would repeat the component cut to the brown component everywhere? 

Or another solution? I'm sure there is. But I wonder also wich is the best one ;-)?

Thanks! 

File: f3z file 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

If you would share your design we could understand what it is about.

günther

[laurent.chenet]

Hi Günther,

It toke a while to export it 🙂

f3z file 

This is what I'm trying yo repeat, cutting the wall with the window body:

[chrisplyler]

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[davebYYPCU]

You must show all the cutter bodies in the window.

Use Modify > Combine > Cut - select all (48 cutter) Tool bodies 1st, then select target body last, I did not keep cutter bodies.

Might help....