Hi,
Today I'm going to talk about Press Pull. This will be the first posting about Press Pull, and about Solid Modeling.
I received a comment that there was no way to get to Press Pull from a keyboard shortcut in AutoCAD 2010, and the fact is that the shortcut was changed.
To make Press Pull with a keyboard shortcut in AutoCAD 2010, you need to press this combination: Shift + Ctrl + E.
Press Pull will enable you to extrude an element from any enclosed boundary between lines that are not necessarily a closed polyline. By clicking the combination of keys or going to the icon in the Ribbon, on the Modeling tab in the Home panel (in the 3D Modeling workspace), you'll see that AutoCAD will try to detect a boundary (just like in Hatch), and then you'll be able to just drag the volume to the desired height, and finish the command. The combination of keys is only needed until the first click that starts the extrusion.
This was introduced in AutoCAD 2007, and has many other possible uses that we will be covering in other postings.
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Dear Guillermo.
Maybe this is a bit different for us using Autocad Architecture 2010, for one I can't find the "3D modeling workspace", it is not one of the default options in ACA. How can I get to that workspace in ACA?
Also, when I try your shortcut (in the Architecture workspace) this command, _.impliedfacex, appears in the command line, but nothing happens...
Just wanted to try your tip, but maybe I did something wrong..
Cheers,
Eirik
Posted by: Eirik K | June 03, 2009 at 01:19 AM
Cool color scheme! How did you accomplish this and is the display of the model specific to a visual style?
Posted by: Steven D. Papke | June 03, 2009 at 01:42 PM
glad you like it. I'll make a post about it as soon as I get home from my trip to Brazil.
Posted by: Guillermo Melantoni | June 03, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Hi Eirik,
I opened my AutoCAD Architecture, and even though it does not have the AutoCAD workspaces, you can make the operations.
Press Pull is done with Shift Ctrl E over any enclosed space, and if you click control and select a face, you can manipulate it as mentioned in the post.
If you want the exact AutoCAD workspace, you can make an installation of AutoCAD Architecture as AutoCAD, and then run the one you need.
Posted by: Guillermo Melantoni | June 03, 2009 at 01:50 PM