Void Object geometry – Function Requests

Hello,

It could be attention-grabbing if Sketchup had a void kind object. An object that can lower via different geometry routinely just like the void types in different CAD packages no matter which element it’s in. This may simplify the work stream for slicing holes out for home windows and so on via advanced wall constructions.

Voids would give us extra choices to create attention-grabbing work flows.

Additionally why does the subject title need to be 15 characters?

That’s already an choice in SketchUp and it has been for a very long time. If the “void” form is a strong, you need to use the Strong Instruments however you may also make advanced cuts with non-solids, as nicely.

You may even create customized shapes and save them as parts to make use of for slicing openings.

I don’t know why the title needs to be 15 characters lengthy.

Yeah I do know we are able to use strong instruments to chop two shapes out from each other. I ought to have detailed my clarification much more.

What I would really like is to:

1 – Create a wall meeting from 3 completely different solids (exterior lining, construction, inner lining) multi function group/element.
2 – Create a window element (dynamic or in any other case) that I can place on the wall meeting and have it routinely lower via all 3 solids that make up that wall with out having to blow up the window or wall in anyway.
3 – Be capable to transfer the window across the wall floor and have it retain its lower info.

I figured that the best manner for this to work could be a void lower object just like the one in Revit that we may create inside a element and have it routinely lower some other element it intersects with.

So far as I do know the sort of computerized performance isn’t but attainable in Sketchup. We have now to create void lower parts inside the wall parts and so on which makes transferring home windows, or utilizing wall parts tougher.
But when I’ve missed a workflow for this I might like to be incorrect!

You may discover Fredo’s Visuhole helpful.

something from the Sketchup staff relating to this function?

to me needs to be like this …you create the amount put it in place in your element…proper click on after which you choose it as a “void” …and in view, I might have an choice in addition to toolbar to show or disguise these voids and below properties the choice to activate/deactivate it per object and possibly a generic icon for on/off all of the voids.

I simply tried Double-cut plug-in but it surely doesn’t work with sections.

This thread is outdated however I’ll submit right here within the hope it invitations some recent curiosity.

Lack of capability to create non damaging void-forms which will be edited/resized is likely one of the most annoying limitations in Sketchup towards one thing like Revit. Intersecting geometry and deleting the undesirable faces provides no flexibility to return and alter the scale or form of the lower within the major object. Additionally as stated above, there are various circumstances the place we want the one void-form to chop via a number of parts without delay (after which additionally ideally nonetheless have the ability to edit this void-form).

Can this even theoretically be performed in SketchUp or is it basically unattainable as a result of the way it generates surfaces/geometry?

Thanks upfront if anybody seems at this.

I’ve been going out of my thoughts in search of a function like this! AutoCAD has a wipeout function that’s as outdated because the dinosaurs, however a minimum of you don’t have to chop everlasting holes in a wall, and transferring/resizing home windows & doorways takes SECONDS.

In my thoughts it might be a selected kind of fabric utilized to the article’s face that is still invisible, however cuts a view via any intersecting geometry. When grouped with one thing like a window, you might simply transfer the window round on the face as you please!

Contemplating giving up on Sketchup and transferring over to Revit, and this one function may make all of the distinction in that call for me. It’s wild that this thread began in 2016!

Any element, together with home windows, will be set to chop a gap within the face they’re positioned towards. You may then slide the window round and the outlet will observe the window. Is that just like what you’re describing?

Right here’s a piece of a 5 12 months outdated video, that exhibits how you might make a element that cuts its personal gap.