This is quite a basic query but I haven’t been able to find an answer from my search attempts. The image below is the early stages of a house and I simply want to move the selected faces by a certain distance in the -Y direction. This issue is that I want to retain the slope of the faces directly above, but I do not know how to do this (or if it is even possible). I can move the faces then correct the sloping faces back to the original angle, but if there is a method that can avoid that, I would appreciate being told how to do it.
You may copy the lines 1. and 2. and scale them; then find the intersection with the tinyCAD tools use this as pivot; copy the wall and scale it here restricted to the Y plane.
But you can’t simply move it for example 1m away; for this you have to make a line at 1m and find the intersetions and re-construct the wall.
For this kind of contruction via contraints according to specific geometrical contructed vertices, lines, angles something like a CAD sustem is more suited. Or some more advanced CAD addon.
Ok, so it sounds as though I’m not missing an obvious solution, and given the alternative, I think just moving the faces and remaking the slope is the easier alternative. I do have TinyCAD tools installed and I used it to help with originally modelling the slope. I also recently bought CAD Transform 2.0 but I’m not sure if it has that functionality built in; I’d need to visit the help website to check but I’ll probably just proceed with the basic approach for now.
Essentially yes, your solution shows the perimeter edges moving as I was looking for, and retains the original slope of the upper faces. I’m not sure why you didn’t move the inner vertices outwards along the along the Y-axis; recreating the openings would be undesirable. In the end, I just moved the faces out and recalculated the slope; both approaches are 2 step processes and get the job done.
I used Slide to keep the slope (and you can control it parametrically too), the inner vertices can’t slide because there are no edges in the Y direction.
I didn’t know if you wanted to keep the openings’ dimensions as original or if they should be “scaled” as well (doors and windows have their needs…).
If you need openings scaled then, seeing your example, it’s just a matter of deleting 2 faces after the grid fill.
If you need the original size then don’t delete inner vertices, just move them along Y using snapping to new position.
