I want to take a cylinder and cut it straight across the flat ends so that I have 2/3s of a cylinder with one flat side to it. How do I do this? The circular faces of the ends don’t accommodate doing this.
It seems that as soon as I post my problem, I find the solution on my own. Forgive me for asking such simple questions. Here’s what I did, for anyone else who’s as new to this as me…
Create a cylinder
- Highlight the side faces to remove, and use Delete>Faces in the Mesh Tool Chest.
- Highlight the vertices that define one of the circular end faces, and use Delete>Faces once again.
- Highlight the two free vertices that will be used segment off the flat edge of the one end and select Make Edge/Face in the Tool Chest.A new edge should appear.
- Select all the vertices on that end so that the area you want to create a new end face for is highlighted.
- Select Make Edge/Face in the Tool Chest. A new face should appear with a straight cut across the area you removed.
- Flip the cylinder and repeat steps 2 - 5.
- Add a face to cover the hole in the side by highlighting the appropriate vertices and selecting Make Edge/Face.