Cut elements 2d

[Anonymous]

Hello,  there is a command like cut in autocad for boards?

[barthbradley]

"Trim/Extent Single Element"??? 

Can you elaborate? Not a lot of information here.

[Anonymous]

Can see the picture you undrestand what I've saying

In autocad there is trim command for 2d dimension.

In this is similar. No?

[barthbradley]

"In autocad there is trim command for 2d dimension"? What? Now I'm really confused, Mateo. Sorry, no comprendo. 

[FGPerraudin]

1. allows you to join two lines together in an angle

2. allows you to extend one / several lines towards another one

3. allows you to cut a line.

Hope this helps,

François

[Anonymous]

@FGPerraudin

Thank's a lot francois. 

My last qustion:

there is possibility to modify sketch with I create my 3d when I've already create 3D model like Inventor?

Thank's a lot.

[barthbradley]

Nice cylinder, Mateo! Well done. 

If you want to modify it, you need to dissolve and modify the profile and then create the form again. Is that what you mean?

[Sahay_R]

Yes.

Select the extrusion. Revit will give you the options to Modify the extrusions. Click on Edit Extrusion. You can then go in and modify the sketch.

[barthbradley]

@Sahay_R, did you look at his family? 

....the reason I ask, is because the geometry is a form element inside a Mass Family. A different animal to modify. 

[Anonymous]

@Sahay_R

Yes but this is obly to simple shape, like rectangol?

If I speak about my file?

A glass

[Anonymous]

@barthbradley yes 

if I want to modify it, I unavoidably need to dissolve the 3d and modify the profile and then create the form again?

There are an anther way to mantain the model 3d and modify the skecth.

What's the difference between family and project?!

Thank's.

[Anonymous]

if I want to modify it, I unavoidably need to dissolve the 3d and modify the profile and then create the form again?

There are an anther way to mantain the model 3d and modify the skecth.

What's the difference between family and project?!

[barthbradley]

I work the project to feed my family. That's the difference for me.

Regarding your question, which was how to modify that geometry: that's the way you do it. But, if you want to recreate it in a non-mass family, you could use the approach @Sahay_R showed. The only way to modify it in the project would be to create it as an in-place family.  

[Anonymous]

@barthbradley

If I create in an in-place family I can use extrude command so?

And in my way noy?

[barthbradley]

In-Place Component, Yes. But why do you want to? 

[ToanDN]

When you building a mass, keep the lines as reference instead of model so that you can come back to edit them a little bit more easily.  I've looked at you glass.  What exactly do you want to change?

This can done as an in-place model, or a loadable family as well.  But the technique is a little different than creating it as a mass.

[Anonymous]

Don't change nothing. 

It's curiosity. 

Use mass because in tutorial use this and think that in inventor is simple to modify the sketch. 

@ToanDN "keep the lines as reference instead of model" what does it mean?

Ps. Thank's for template.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Don't change nothing. 

It's curiosity. 

Use mass because in tutorial use this and think that in inventor is simple to modify the sketch. 

@ToanDN "keep the lines as reference instead of model" what does it mean?

Ps. Thank's for template.

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@Anonymous 

When you create a form from reference lines and delete it, the lines remain.  when you create a form from model lines and delete it, the lines are gone.  So if you use model lines, you must use Dissolve to delete the form and restore the lines and points.  I shouldn't have said one is easier than another.  Just different workflows.