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Re: How to add curved channels into parts
Thank you for the document, very helpful! For the line you made, was it a 3 point arc that you then offset and them mirrored?
Arkelic
Re: How to Extrude along a surface of cylinder while making a 90 degree twist
I made this video a long time ago, there may be improvements that make my method obsolete…
Re: Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing
Changelog for release 1.198.1
⭐ Fixed issue with CSV files containing spaces
Re: How to Extrude along a surface of cylinder while making a 90 degree twist
Yes, as you say it's hard to get this stuff right in CAD. I've modeled cams in Solidworks, which has a native swept solid feature. However, the surfaces it created were atrocious. "Hand building" is probably a better solution, but it sure would be nice if there were better tools.
S1mon
Re: How to Extrude along a surface of cylinder while making a 90 degree twist
This is one of those easy-to-machine but hard-to-model features that make machine shops roll their eyes at designers. The problem with the wrap feature is that it has a local context for tangency and normalcy but the 4 axis slotting operation that would be required for this part is rolling a 12mm cylinder through your part. The way to do this is to think purely in terms of the machining operation. First model the centerline of your cutting operation somehow, which wrap is useful for, but then doing a thicken operation that will match the cutter diameter, then adding in cylinder primitives at the end points of the toolpath.
Here's a photo of the interferences you'll encounter using wrap alone:
An example using some ruled surface operations and some solid primitives featurescripts courtesy of @EvanReese (though you could do this with sketch extrudes on mate connectors as well)
And a link to my doc to see how I did it.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/82582ec2491e30f28cd4bacf/w/357f8fc6ebeac95345155eb7/e/6e6a3b0d521a696c46c1efb2
Re: Countersink Screws and Holes Mating
By the way, I work in the railway industry, and I agree on the fact that proper mating should be with conical surfaces. It's just not possible to adapt the machining in our case, as all parts comes from different suppliers. Screws are manufactures to a standard, and we design the holes to match this in all allowed tolerances of the standard.
Re: Countersink Screws and Holes Mating
Re: Can I to add measures of the Part Bounds in the BOM List?
You can use computed properties:
https://www.onshape.com/en/resource-center/tech-tips/using-computed-part-properties-in-onshape
You can adapt the example in the article to use a bounding box instead of the volume calculation.
If you don't feel comfortable with featurescript, I sell a large library of computed properties (featuring lots of common computed properties):
https://fs.place/Listings/HUK1UHJF8EQ6HS1NEVJ2SWH4BI1TOMT1
Re: Charted Drawings
Right click the Part number input from within the feature and Convert to expression. This will let you use variables as inputs. You can add variables and strings together like this "xyzNameOfYourPart " ~ #variableName
Re: Introducing - The Onshape Desktop Client
Sorry I must be doing something wrong but I cant seem to find the download. Is it still available?
qubed_up