{"id":26155,"date":"2014-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/support\/tip\/can-i-extract-the-faces-or-edges-of-visualarq-objects\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:00:00","slug":"can-i-extract-the-faces-or-edges-of-visualarq-objects","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/zh-hans\/support\/tip\/can-i-extract-the-faces-or-edges-of-visualarq-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I extract the faces or edges of VisualARQ objects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since VisualARQ objects are actually blocks, some Rhino commands don&#8217;t apply directly on them, in the same way they don&#8217;t work on Rhino blocks directly.\r\nThis happens with the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_DupBorder<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros duplicate face border command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DupFaceBorder.jpg\" \/><\/span>\u00a0or the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_ExtractSrf<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros extract surface command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ExtracSrf.jpg\" \/><\/span> commands.<\/p>\r\nSome other commands, like the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_DupEdge<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros duplicate edge command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dupedge.png\" \/><\/span>, do work on VisualARQ objects (although edges are not highlighted after the selection).\r\n<p>For those that do not work, there is a workaround to sort this problem out.<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Make a copy &#8220;in place&#8221; of the VisualARQ object you want to extract a border or a face from. (Run the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_Copy<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros copy command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/copy.jpg\" \/><\/span> command and select the &#8220;InPlace&#8221; option in the command line).<\/li>\r\n<li>Hide one of the two copies, or lock it.<\/li>\r\n<li>Explode the visible (or unlocked) object so that it becomes a regular polysurface.<\/li>\r\n<li>On this polysurface you can now apply the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_DupBorder<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros duplicate face border command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DupFaceBorder.jpg\" \/><\/span>\u00a0or the <span class=\"va-command-icon\"><span>_ExtractSrf<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhinoceros extract surface command icon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ExtracSrf.jpg\" \/><\/span> commands, for example.<\/li>\r\n<li>Once you have duplicated the faces or face borders, delete the polysurface.<\/li>\r\n<li>Show (or unlock) the original object you had hidden (or locked).<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10240\" alt=\"ExtractSrf and DupEdge from VA objects\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.visualarq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ExtractSrf-and-DupEdge-from-VA-objects.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":659,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"tipgroup":[108],"class_list":["post-26155","tip","type-tip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipgroup-objects-zh-hans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can I extract the faces or edges of VisualARQ objects? 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