Alignment Control for points

Have you tried doing this with boolean operations? andnbsp;For example if you cut your sphere with a plane, one of the results might be what you want.

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Geo

Richard,
Would it be possible, in some future version of 3DC, to have an alignment control added for aligning all points within a selected group of points, so that you end up with, for instance, a andquot;flat spotandquot; on the surface of a sphere, or so that you could align the points of an unevenly extruded area such as you get when extruding multiple faces of a sphere. This would be a great addition for working with any non-flat surface.
This would also allow the user to retain the same number of faces, edges, and points, when creating a flat spot, rather than the changes that are made in a boolean subtraction.
I know the same results can be achieved by shifting points, but an alignment feature would save a great deal of time.
Les

Richard,
The method you suggested worked fine. andnbsp;;D
Thanks again,
Les

Geo_Jenner,
The boolean subtract method works to create the flat surface, but I was trying to get away from that method because it changes the number of faces and points in that area. Thanks

Richard,
I hadn’t noticed or thought about the method you mentioned. I’ll try it and see how it works. I don’t mind having to resize a little. Thanks
Les

I don’t know if this is what you are looking for, but if you select a group of faces, select the face orientation mode (on the main toolbar), and scale only in the Z direction (constrain the others) you can scale them so they are entirely flat. But this may not be exactly what you desire. I have done this to flatten out a portion of a sphere. You will likely have to move the flattened faces after the scale so that they are where you want (along the Z axis). But it did work pretty well in my tests.

Richard

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