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Re: How do I make a solid spiral on a cone with smooth transitions on top and bottom?
This is an old discussion, but in case you need to make a solid body spiral again, I made a feature that will help! Spiral
Re: Flat view for surface.
Model it how it is manufactured in the picture :)
Cropped Views, Drawing Model Tree, and Other Issues with the Drawing Functionality
Cropped Views
I'm trying to create "closeup views" of portions of my model without using the section view tool (since I don't need to visually reference the full model). In SolidWorks, I do this by creating a cropped view; however, the closest alternative I've been able to find in OnShape is doing multiple Break Views and trying to either find a way to hide the portions I don't want seen off the screen or just minimize them down to black dots on the page and be satisfied that it's as good as it's going to get for the time being. Clearly, this is not the ideal solution, and actually, the only reason I'm willing to be satisfied with it is because the project I'm using OnShape for is just for personal use, so I'm the only one looking at it.Drawing Model Tree
In SolidWorks, there's a model tree on the left side of all drawings where the drawing views, tables, etc. can be accessed. This is useful for several reasons:- It's easy to access the various different views in the drawing and modify them as needed.
- Expanding the tree node allows for the simple inspection of the model being referenced by the view.
- All the tables on the sheet can be accessed and modified as needed.
Other Drawing Functionality
A few other things that I've noticed are lacking in the drawing tab are:- The ability to add borders to notes (as well as several other formatting features).
- Other than the text included in the balloon, there's no formatting of the appearance of the balloon at all.
- I routinely create sketches overlaid on top of drawing views. These sketches may or may not get printed, but they always provide useful references for adding dimensions later.
Re: Pattern point to point help?
@MichaelPascoe
Point0 and point are vectors, however, x is valueWithUnits, y is a unitless vector and so is z.
I think you are trying to make point0 and point planes.
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var point0 = plane(midpointBottomPath0, selectedPathPlane.x , selectedPathPlane.normal);
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var point = plane(midpointBottomPath, selectedPathPlane.x , selectedPathPlane.normal);
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const transform = transform(point0,point);
vector(x,y,z) does not have checks in it for anything other than size > 0 and it is an array.
this will create a plane to plane transform which is likely what you want
Point0 and point are vectors, however, x is valueWithUnits, y is a unitless vector and so is z.
I think you are trying to make point0 and point planes.
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var point0 = plane(midpointBottomPath0, selectedPathPlane.x , selectedPathPlane.normal);
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var point = plane(midpointBottomPath, selectedPathPlane.x , selectedPathPlane.normal);
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const transform = transform(point0,point);
vector(x,y,z) does not have checks in it for anything other than size > 0 and it is an array.
this will create a plane to plane transform which is likely what you want
Re: How can I as an Admin in enterprise move docs from free onshape
On your "My Onshape" home page you should be able to right click on a document/folder you own and in the context menu should be "Transfer Ownership." To transfer from cad.onshape.com to your enterprise you need to be logged into cad.onshape.com with the same email that is an Admin in the enterprise.
Clicking on this brings up a new menu. Select "Company" instead of Individual and choose your Enterprise.
Clicking on this brings up a new menu. Select "Company" instead of Individual and choose your Enterprise.
New Custom Feature - Spiral
Spiral
Link:
Created by:
Michael Pascoe, Cache River Mill.
References:
Split helix surfaces - Andrew_Troup
Standard Featurescript Library Source - Onshape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral
Description:
This custom feature produces two types of solid body spirals: Archimedean spirals & Logarithmic spirals.
Prerequisites:
A location to place the origin mate connector.
Troubleshooting Tips:
Turn off “Flatten Bottom” & “Cap Top”.
Adjust the layer width or diameters.
If the logarithmic spiral fails, try adjusting the “Spiral Magnitude”
Re: Why does one side of the loft go vertical but the other goes diagonal?
@arthur_nichelson
The lower sketch is split into two curves, and the exterior boundary of the upper sheet is not split at all.
For best results, loft profiles should have the same number of boundary edges, so that the sidewall edges can go from vertex-to-vertex of the start profile to the end profile. If there are no vertices to go to (in this case, since the end profile has one smooth edge all the way around), the loft has to guess how to make the sidewall edges.
So here, you'll either want to have both profiles have 1 edge, or both profiles have two edges. For both to have a single edge, the start profile can be reworked by either just re-drawing the boundary spline as one edge, rather than two, or you could use fit spline to fit a single spline to those two edges, and then use that edge in a subsequent sketch: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/3d_fit_spline.htm
For them both to have two edges, you could split the inner profile before applying the offset surface: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-tools-split.htm. That split will carry through to the offset surface, and then both profiles will have two boundary edges.
The lower sketch is split into two curves, and the exterior boundary of the upper sheet is not split at all.
For best results, loft profiles should have the same number of boundary edges, so that the sidewall edges can go from vertex-to-vertex of the start profile to the end profile. If there are no vertices to go to (in this case, since the end profile has one smooth edge all the way around), the loft has to guess how to make the sidewall edges.
So here, you'll either want to have both profiles have 1 edge, or both profiles have two edges. For both to have a single edge, the start profile can be reworked by either just re-drawing the boundary spline as one edge, rather than two, or you could use fit spline to fit a single spline to those two edges, and then use that edge in a subsequent sketch: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/3d_fit_spline.htm
For them both to have two edges, you could split the inner profile before applying the offset surface: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-tools-split.htm. That split will carry through to the offset surface, and then both profiles will have two boundary edges.
Re: Performance test results
tony_soares459 said:I configured my browser to always use my all-powerful NVIDIA graphics card, but my Windows performance manager suggests it isn't being used much at all. What I see while I wait for a feature to register in a model:
Notice the NVIDIA row at the bottom left, which says only 7% of the GPU resources are being used. I have never seen it above 15% while using Onshape, even though it does spike a slight bit in more demanding tasks. This is very different from what I see when I run the Onshape performance test:
I took this capture before the GPU resources peaked at over 90%. Not sure why the performance test would tap so much into my NVIDIA GPU when my modeling work doesn't. I've gone through all the browser configuring and driver updating there is to do. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Anyone else seeing the same discrepancy?
Usually a performance test is a sustained series of commands sent to test for maximum performance so it loads up the GPU. When you are actually modelling, it's a series of short bursts only when doing actual changes to rotation or panning / zooming of your model.
Windows performance monitor has a polling interval of a few seconds - your GPU is probably bursting to high usage but only for a half second at a time.
Get your most complex model, put lots of detail on the screen and pan around rapidly for 20-30 seconds then check your GPU usage....
