| Is there a way to make a positive object a negative one? | Luremaker | 4/19/12 8:24 AM | In a nutshell, I make fishing lures and molds. I have made some prototype lures in sketchup and wanted to make a 5 cavity mold from it. I can easily have the original model printed on a 3D printer, and then use silicone to make the molds out of, bu |
| Re: Is there a way to make a positive object a negative one? | Aerilius | 4/19/12 8:38 AM | You want to "substract" a shape from another. You can do this in SketchUp Pro with the Tools → Solid Tools, or with plugins like BoolTools or OSCoolean. |
| Re: Is there a way to make a positive object a negative one? | Luremaker | 4/19/12 8:43 AM | I hate to sound noobish, but where can I get the plug in and how do you choose whatever the"subtract" tool is? Thanks so much! |
| Re: Is there a way to make a positive object a negative one? | Jean Lemire | 4/19/12 8:43 AM | Hi Luremaker, hi folks. See this SU file for ideas: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=20c5a23f9480f07612cfb0c58382469f Jean |