So I’m trying to model this gate that utilizes perforated steel. We’re talking 1/8” holes that are 3/8” on center, 4 panels of the stuff each 5’x16”. Is there a faster way to draw those tens of thousands of circles besides just drawing one, move with a copy, populate the first row on the short side,…

I gave up trying tbh. It’s one thing to select the circles en masse and wait while the app copies them, but when I realized I’d have to click each individual face to extrude them through the sheet. . . I’m not clicking on over 10,000 faces. Unrelated to this post, but don’t feel like starting anoth…

Please can you send us the workspace via support@shapr3d.com , let’s take a look and get back to you as soon as possible.

The image shown measures 300 x 300mm [approx one foot square] with 19 x 19 Holes it took approximately 6 minutes and that includes fluffing the first copy and dropping it accidentally, requiring careful selection and deleting the unwanted overlapping row. [IMG_0420] It seems you have created your …

To Victor, I don’t have the pro version to export files. How do I send it to you? To Gelphyn, yes, I sketched the cross section of the sheet, then extruded it across the space it needed to occupy, then sketched the holes on its face.

Okay, I see. Please tell me your userId via email to support@shapr3d.com and then we will take it from there. Thanks a lot for your patience.

Start by Sketching the Plan of a Portion of your Sheet. 16" wide x [say] 15" that x 4 will provide the 60" [5’] needed. I have found it possible to manipulate 5,000 Sketches [AKA Lines/Edges/???] in a single Sketch. However as you have discovered things get slowed down, that is the reason for the …

I definitely can’t import/export with the free version. But I can create that elsewhere within the space then translate it into position. I’d assume the two methods are functionally the same.

There is plenty of space but every thing on a Plane will add to the total count within the Sketch for that particular Plane. The following is approaching a replication of your desired Perforated Panel. It measures, and I have used artistic licence [read: cheated if you like for appearance sake] 31…

It’s not letting me do anything with the file. For reference, this is the gate and the large flat areas are what will be made from the perforated steel. [image] These are the pictures I took when I was still trying to do the perforations. Given the number of sketches at which you and I both bogge…

You are absolutely correct it is right on the edge of possibility. I have been playing with the Sheet, Rotating the Body and timing the processing. Extruding was taking 02:00 minutes and Rotating 90º was 02:33. The movement of the Body during Rotation was normal until hesitation was accepted as t…

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Same story as… Very slow and shutting down again and again

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