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Figure 6-7
Figure 6-5
13. Extrude the floor plan up about five
feet. (No, we're not building a hobbit-
sized house. We just need to get some
room to work to prepare for transform-
ing our polylines into walls with
thickness.)
14. Activate the Bevel tool and its Numeric
window. Enter 1" for both Shift and
Inset.
15. Using Volume Select: Include (click the
View | Selection | Volume button
twice), drag a selection box around the
top of your model
and press the
Delete key to
delete it. You are
left with only its
bottom (see Fig-
ure 6-8).
Figure 6-6: When we extruded the two-point polys, the “walls” became sets of
two polygons back to back. So, beveling each “face” by 1 inch gives a total wall
thickness of 2 inches. (Using the same value for the Inset as we used for the Shift
means that where walls meet at right angles, the new points lie directly on top of
one another — it saves us a little bit of time when merging points a bit later.)
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