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Re: .... How do I 'Mate' RHS 50 x25 Pieces
Hey Keith. Welcome to Onshape. I'm guessing you mean that since the pieces are hollow a mate connector won't be available at the center of a piece's end. While selecting a point to place a mate connector on an end, when Onshape 'wakes up' locations to place the connector, hold down the shift key which tells Onshape to 'stay on this plane' and you can then move your cursor to the center which will 'wake up' a connector there. - Scotty
Re: How to create a pyramid net
This reminds me of something I made back in 2015 using Rhino/Grasshopper, and X-acto, and a bunch of hand cramps.
You can get to something similar in Onshape. Here's an example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/15d45eb42a9fa95ad82df5be/w/ef1285a63adb32b9dde86a3c/e/0fd298a780ed9d412ba7a010
Challenges I didn't yet overcome are:
- getting labels on each one - some of the ways I thought I used to use don't seem to work right now. @MichaelPascoe didn't you say that you were also seeing new issues with old workflows for patterning sketch text?
- unfolding them all with Sheet metal - Sheet metal features can't be patterned, so you'd have to manually convert each one (225 individuals), but you could.
Relative skill-levels treated as equal, Grasshopper is a better tool for this, but Onshape can work.
Re: Custom Feature: Query Variable+
AND then I went for a walk and realised a better way to implement it that's more compliant to the original Query Variables UI. So please disregard v1 and use V4 wich requires 11 small code changes/additions…
