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Re: sweep a constant profile along a 3d path while setting the orientation at waypoints along that path

@eric_rollins Use a ruled surface to make a reference for the sweep feature to use as a "face to lock".

In the Ruled Surface

use "angle from direction"
add vertex overrides where you want to change the angle
check "use cubic interpolation" to make it smooth

In the Sweep

change Profile Control to "Lock profile faces" and choose all of the faces of the ruled surface.

Here's an example I did recently of this.

EvanReese

Lumber Profiles in Weldments Options

I use onshape to model structures built with lumber. Would be nice if lumber was a group with all of the profiles.

hammontree_valerie

Re: Lumber Profiles in Weldments Options

How did you know what I was working on?

Jason_S

Re: Problem with OnShape

@NeilCooke I always misspell that word for some reason. ugh. Grok and chatgpt don't care if I misspell something. 🤣

Here's a revised screenshot with corrected spelling. 🙄

@peter_marsh559 This link should help you find answers fairly quickly for things like constraints. https://learn.onshape.com/pages/ai-advisor

MDesign

Re: Trying to Draw Water Slide Having trouble with a sloped 3d Line

Ok! we'll start production early next week. @Derek_Van_Allen_BD you will be the lead engineer; we'll need you to contact SplashTacular LLC asap. @EvanReese will be the curvature QA specialist, make sure no one snags their shorts or breaks their neck. And I'll go ahead and tackle the project manager role since I appear to be assigning roles.. We can call it OnshapeLand. This is going to be fun!

We will need rides to represent all the different aspects of Onshape:

Onshape-Land

*GPT Image, that is not my spelling 🤣

MichaelPascoe

Re: Trying to Draw Water Slide Having trouble with a sloped 3d Line

Gonna start describing Onshape as "funkeloud CAD" and there's nothing their marketing team can do to stop me.

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

NEW custom feature: Regen Timer

Ever wanted to know how much time it takes to regenerate just one folder in your feature list? Now you can! Get the feature here, and be sure to watch the video as there are some important quirks to be aware of.

https://youtu.be/n2IOAK6ENyk

EvanReese