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Re: bug when hollowing a Loft
If you increase your sketch 5 dimension to 2.1 it will help avoid the tight bend at the bottom and allow you to shell up to .25 thick depending on the result of using connections on the loft.
MDesign
Re: Enclose failure samples
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Here's one it couldn't do.. Enjoy😁
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/db6321fb0f74d1200dfa2dda/w/3749ca029071481b59fec139/e/77449d3eff2a119c8c3de7…
Re: formula troubles..
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Onshape was reading your equation like this: #Width/1000) * mm. To fix this, emphasize that you want the mm multiplication to only apply to the 1000, like this: 4*(#Width/(1000 mm))
⚠️ I recommend splitting up the 74mm and the 1000mm into their own variables so that there is less confusion and possible errors.
But if you do want to cram it all into one, here is how you can do it:(#Width-(74mm))/round((4*(#Width/(1000 mm))), 1)
Or if you intent was to round the final number to 1mm, then do this:round((#Width-(74mm))/(4*(#Width/(1000 mm))), 1mm)
Note that if you want to round unitless values to specific decimal places, you would need to use this function: roundToPrecision(#Number, 3)
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Custom Feature: Auto Loft
So one day I got sick and tired of creating so many things in order to loft 2 objects and created this new feature:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/94e2ca3c499ecbba9ccfafe6/w/c35c00116423894cfa81ae88/e/2ee558d2512c5ebe0f9102c1
This feature allows you to loft a surface without having to make another sketch or plane. You can start with 3 things:
LOFT TO POINT:
for this just choose the surface you want and input the X, Y, Z distance from the origin of that sketch. Keep in mind that the coordinates are using the plane that was created on the surface so X is more of length away, Y is width away, and Z is height away.
LOFT TO SQUARE:
The coordinates are the same as before however it is from the center of the new square. Also you can input the length and width of the square that it lofts to.
LOFT TO CIRCLE
Same thing as before the coordinates just go to the center of the circle. Also you can change the set radius of that circle.
Now the add, remove features may not work as well with error messages but that is a bug to figure out for another time.
