I'm trying to find a way to remove pieces by just selecting the portion that needs deleting, without creating a Hole shape. What I'm attempting is basically a circle with a tapered neck below, with the neck being made from the Tube shape. I created the first circle and then found the radius and shape of the curve I wanted to join that head to the shoulders, for lack of a better term, by creating a circle with the tube with only about 1/4 of it serving as the neck. The problem comes where there is all the extra material from the "neck" circle, which I would like to be able to just select the parts of the circle not joining the head to the shoulders and trim them away. In the picture, I am basically looking to only keep the green part of the lower circle, and choose sections of that circle and perhaps the yellow overlap portion to remove. I took on class with AutoCad about 10 years ago and remember doing something like that, but this is a simpler program. Any way for this to get done? Thanks!
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Tinkercad Tinkercad I don't think this is exactly what you are looking for, but in cases where I've got a shape that would take lots of holes to remove what I don't want I'll instead use as few shapes as possible to create a small gap between what I want and what I don't. I'll then export the entire thing (gap and all pieces) as an STL. Open in Cura, use the "Separate parts" command in Cura, delete the parts I don't want and then save what's remaining as an STL and import it back into Tinkercad.
Far from ideal but it does get you what you want in a nice clean single STL.
If you do have to use holes though, check out the EXTRUSION shape generator. It lets you tweak the shape of a single hole in very elaborate ways rather than have to make lots of separate holes.
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