Finding inside or outside facing primitives
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Hi all,
I'm having a hard time explaining my question properly but here goes!
Perhaps it will be better to explain it with an example - if I had an empty carboard box, I want to find the inside facing surfaces and the outside facing surfaces, on a horizontal plane so I can manipulate them separately. In Houdini, I can easily find them using the extrudeFrontSeam or extrudeBackSeam groups after extrusion to give thickness, but I lose these groups after doing a bevel.
After an extrude, I can easily determine inside and outside facing prims:
But after a bevel, how do I find them here?
I'm having a hard time explaining my question properly but here goes!
Perhaps it will be better to explain it with an example - if I had an empty carboard box, I want to find the inside facing surfaces and the outside facing surfaces, on a horizontal plane so I can manipulate them separately. In Houdini, I can easily find them using the extrudeFrontSeam or extrudeBackSeam groups after extrusion to give thickness, but I lose these groups after doing a bevel.
After an extrude, I can easily determine inside and outside facing prims:
But after a bevel, how do I find them here?
Edited by RooiJakkals - 2023年2月17日 20:25:06
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Hey Robsdesign/tamte,
Thank you so much, you just saved me a huge headache! This is so simple slick and clean, where everything else I tried turned into a clunky mess. Had no idea group promote was for these group type conversions.
I actually started off wrong, first doing an inset, then extruding upwards and losing control of the sides - it was part of a much bigger solution. This pushed me in the right direction.
Thanks again for the support!!
Thank you so much, you just saved me a huge headache! This is so simple slick and clean, where everything else I tried turned into a clunky mess. Had no idea group promote was for these group type conversions.
I actually started off wrong, first doing an inset, then extruding upwards and losing control of the sides - it was part of a much bigger solution. This pushed me in the right direction.
Thanks again for the support!!
Edited by RooiJakkals - 2023年2月19日 09:20:13
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