Fill a gap between two converted polygons

# 1 25-03-2015 , 01:21 AM

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Hi I have imported a simple scene from CAD in a DXF file format. the scene is made up of two squares one bigger than the other i am trying to fill the gap between them with faces.

when i imported the scene the squares are made up of 4 curve shapes so I have added a paint effect -> Curve Utilities -> Attach brush to curve.
I then converted the brush's to polygons then combined them so they are all one object.
I then did this for the other square to.

So now i just want to fill between the two squares.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark

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# 2 25-03-2015 , 03:16 AM

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Can you give us a screen shot? Generally to fill between two polygons you first combine them and then bridge. But it would help to see what you are working with.

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# 3 25-03-2015 , 11:09 AM

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Hi i have attached a screen shot.

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# 4 25-03-2015 , 04:38 PM

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Wow. Just wow. What exactly am I looking at - really thin polygons that almost appear to be curves they are so thin or am I looking at curves?

In either case you are making your life much harder then it needs to be. You can recreate that shape by extruding edges of a polygon plane in about 30 seconds of work and that included taking a screen shot of your image, applying it to a shader, applying that to an image plane and then extruding the shape.

Maybe you need to explain why you are using such a convoluted method to create essentially inner and outer boundary curves of that shape?

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You could also do this with create polygon and simply click on the corner cv's of the curves you brought in from the CAD application.

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# 5 26-03-2015 , 10:01 AM

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Hi that is curves. I am trying to see how to do it then create a script which converts the curves to polygons then extrude to create walls. So would you suggest create a plane and attach the curves to the plane?

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# 6 26-03-2015 , 03:15 PM

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I figured it out with using the surfaces extrude that way I don't have to convert it to a polygon or add a paint effect. I believe I was making it much harder than it should have been.

Thank you for your help.

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