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Re: Drawings/create API
Did you end up figuring this out? I want to do the same thing (except with 2 views).
Re: Drawings/create API
@Christopher_Ace_Caoile That's a good idea. It would be cool though, if an Onshape developer could step in here to be clear on how it can be done efficiently or if it can be done. It would seem it should be able to be done, simply because it is being done within the Onshape UI. Sadly much of the API calls being done within the Onshape UI seem to be made server side, so picking through your console to see what is actually happening is not much help with respect to drawings I have found.
Re: best way for loft sections between two changing size faces in different parts
In the case of cylindrical… make a surface, a sketch, wrap the sketch on the surface with the split option, then thicken the pieces of the surface.
MDesign
Re: copy design using api
Yeah, this one works for me:
https://cad.onshape.com/glassworks/explorer/#/Document/copyWorkspace
Re: New Feature: Better Than Boolean
@Caden_Armstrong that's a pretty slick implementation. I could use that to draw sketch lines from the offset blue centroids back to their original location to make it clearer that that's where they're supposed to be.
OR I could waste precious rendering cycles drawing sacred geometry around the workspace in my Miter Warlock script to stay on theme.
Re: Troubleshooting procedure for fillet failure (and any other failed feature, for that matter)
I have a experienced some issues recently with mirrored geometry not behaving the same as the "original" side, specifically when working with fillets (and drafts). My guess would be that the software uses the "context" provided by the feature creation before the fillet to figure out how to apply the fillet but that gets lost on the "mirrored" side, or something along these lines but you would think the mirrored geometry would work the same!
A couple tricks for troubleshooting fillets:
- The first step is to try a smaller fillet radius to see what happens, sometimes the value at which it fails will match another fillet or feature size that can provide a hint on what's going on. Depending on the issue (and the design intent), a variable fillet can help with these cases
- Temporarily turn off "tangent propagation" and investigating what happens around the trouble area and when manually selecting things can also provide insight
- You can also play with the "edges to keep" under the "allow edge overflow" box (although probably not relevant in this case)
