Hi, Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can create an extruded geometry along a path, but then clip the ends to a specific angle ? As per the attached image, but with an extruded shape running along its length, rather than square? Many Thanks! [Angled Geo]

Thanks again for the help. Have a lot of pre calculated trig variables in my code and just realised I was calling the opposite angle by mistake :crazy_face: All sorted :+1: [image]

Hi @Picklehead :slight_smile: Do you mean something like contour/profile by @hofk Or a (similar) extension of this by @prisoner849

HI, Yes that is exactly what I am trying to achieve but on a single part. I did have a look at your discourse but missed this completely. Thanks for posting the reply.

Hi, Thanks very much, very similar but I think the hofk has posted a perfect example.

Would it be OK to switch the extrusion axis? I.e. instead of this: [image] do this: [image]

HI, Unfortunately, I think the Axis must be as your first image just due to the different shapes to be extruded. This is one of the profiles I am trying to extrude along a path and then slice the ends at an angle. Thanks! [image]

Yes, for such shapes switching axis will do nothing good. Here are some alternatives: use clipping planes (if you do not need to cap the cutoffs, e.g. if something else is attached) modify the end vertices (easy if the path is a straight segment, harder if it is a curve) use CSG (this is the heav…

At the moment the cut-offs do not need to have a cap and the paths will always be straight. However there will be multiple instances extruded and clipped.

Trying to create multiple profiled paths at an angle that will generated on the fly as you create staircase of unlimited design.( Work in progress, lots to do on textures, lighting etc)

Proof of concept for the second idea (modification of vertices). The shape is a geomarker. The red object is uncut. The white objects are randomly cut. [image] https://codepen.io/boytchev/full/dyrdVJo (sorry, if you are afraid of syringes)

Clipped extrude along path

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hofk January 30, 2024, 7:17pm 2

I use the corresponding calculation in this application.
Construction of frames with contour/profile

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