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Re: Surfacing Nightmare- Can't get these corners
Right now this is view only, so I can only investigate so much…
That said, I would avoid loft, and avoid lofting so much in one feature. I would recommend constructing the cleanest, most simple curves you can for each of the sides of that shape, and then build the corners from that. Right now you're getting a surface which is way too dense and not great quality.
While Onshape doesn't have all the same tools, this series of tutorials on surfacing with Alias might help you with how to break things up and use better techniques:
One of the most important things in this case, would be to "build to theoretical edges"
These videos from Onshape's @GregBrown goes into some of the newer curve features and techniques for dealing with scan data:
S1mon
Re: SurfaceText Problem with Cut Out function
Hi, I had the same issue with Surface Text as Vincent _bombonel:
I lost many hours trying to fix it. Finally I was lucky to find this topic and was able to solve the problem with the Text feature from jnewth.
Many thanks 🤗
Re: Having trouble creating a "Lock" at the correct angel and spot for screw
The lid of my car's engine oil filler cap has such a stopper. It works flawlessly, but they made it close to the outside perimeter in order for it to take more torque. That is important, when it comes to (presumably dumb) user interaction. The small 'hook' that goes into the stop is elastic and when meeting the top of the filler opening, it gets preloaded a tiny bit, then slides down the ramp, allowing it to snap into the end position with a tactile stop.
It is a french car. The french are pretty smart with little useful details like this.
Re: IDE Broken in Featurescript
Sounds like it lost some context of where you were. That can happen when you have a feature studio that does not parse without errors (like what's in the screenshot) — then it uses information from the last time it parsed the code successfully. If you make the feature studio parse again, it should be fine again.
Re: Stretch or warp (not wrap) a sketch or solid along a curve
Use @Konst_Sh 's Flex FeatureScript:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0bb13c1b6ed6d4a6dd75cf99/w/b4493d47a45c27ce485c84b9/e/964f73eb0179aad8733b9f23
S1mon
Re: Generating loft causes problems
Thank you very much! This generated the loft as I wished.
Onshape but offline, called OFFSHAPE
Onshape is awesome. It’s the future of CAD. But sometimes the future doesn’t have Wi-Fi. Like when you’re on a plane, long road trip, or when the only place you can find some peace and quiet is in your anechoic basement dungeon
In those dark, lonely times, all we want is OFFSHAPE
1. Disconnect from Onshape – Screen fades to dark mode, Offshape logo appears, maybe even some secret Easter-egg features?
2. CAD using your own machines computing power
3. Reconnect later and instant sync like nothing ever happened
✨ OFFSHAPE™ – For when you can’t be ON… you can still be OFF
Re: Using a twisted face to split parts
I'm no airplane design expert or even an ametuer but wouldn't it be easier to start with the surfacing of your wing and build the parts based on that skin?
MDesign
Incomplete fonts or ... how do I find which unicode characters are actually supported?
Recently I needed an arrow on the surface of a part.
I could model the arrow, but onshape has a text tool and many fonts, and unicode has a range of just what I want (https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2190.html) which would be fine for this model.
Its a little tricky to enter unicode 2192 (→) into the Text tool (In the end I used windows 11 Notepad to create the character : e.g. type 2192 and the Alt X) followed by copy and paste into the onshape "Edit Text" dialogue.
Hurray! It appears to work. The arrow is in the edit box and more reassuringly also in the example window I see my arrow in the target font.
BUT… this is not then reflected in the part. Instead I get a rectangle, implying an unmodeled character to me. Same for the other Arrow codes I tried.
This seems to imply the font libraries aren't mapped to the on-shape modeling through some maths, which is a bit of a surprise.
Trying some of the available fonts I do find success with Arimo but fails with many others (e.g. Allerta, Baumans as examples).
My issue is not the completeness of the coverage in a particular font, but that I haven't found a usable way to discover what is available with each font. Trial and error doesn't work given the range of fonts, especially when the edit dialogue display does not reflect what will be modelled on to a part.