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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…
