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Re: Rotating view locked on with mouse
Had this issue with Opera, it's related from one of the browser's default settings. Go to setting and search for mouse gestures and turn it off, fixes the issue 😉
Re: Slide linkage by CADemist linkage pin shearing
Share your document so the brain trust can have a look.
Re: CAM Studio
Not just for .edu accounts, we hobby machinists could really use a decent CAM facility that's fully integrated with OnShape and doesn't require the bad hybrid workflow with Fusion hobbyist edition that we have to put up with now. A $2.5K subscription is a complete non-starter for home machinists. I hope OS can figure out some reasonable plan to support the hobbyist use case. XYZA, basic tool changer, and Acorn/Mach4/LinuxCNC posts would make a lot of people happy. And please not the crippling of rapids that Fusion saddles us with…we already have relatively slow moving machines.
d_cook
Re: CAM Studio
"Also AutoDesk just sent out to HSMWorks customers that they are retiring it on March 25th, 2028"
That's what I hate with subscriptions (Onshape not counting as a cloud native service where even access to old versions would mean ongoing costs for PTC - there subscription is unfortunately the only realistic option).
HSMWorks would probably perfectly well continue to work for the next 20 years if you keep a compatible machine. And in many cases it probably can do everything needed for the job. But still, it will cease to function, just because of that business model and a company wanting to enforce to buy their new stuff instead. This is just artificial, planned obsolescence without any technical need, making something non-functional that would otherwise perfectly continue to work. Which should imho be forbidden.
fst
Re: Secret 2 way Pattern Part Performance Boost.
This is because for 2nd direction, there are 15*15-1=224 Boolean adds, and for the 2 patterns there are 14+14=28 Boolean adds.
S1mon
Secret 2 way Pattern Part Performance Boost.
The secret is to not use 2nd direction for part patterning. Use 2 pattern features instead for a lot of objects. This was a 15x15 pattern. I was playing around with tile floor pattern for @jeff_mcaffer and noticed a huge performance hit when clicking on 2nd direction in part pattern function. It might be tied just to the add option of the pattern feature trying to join all the geometry. I have to try a few other things to explore and expand if necessary.
MDesign
Re: Need some help with being efficient.
From where you are now, draw a box to represent the mating surface, and make it flush with the back. Then use the boolean>subtract tool, and subtract the holder from the mount. It will make slots in the negative shape of the tangs.
After you do that, move face on either the tang or the slot to make sliding clearance. Otherwise, the parts will never fit. I'll assume you are 3D printing this. If so, move face .015" as a start, and see how that fits when you make a test print of that localized area.
Re: Need some help with being efficient.
If efficiency is a goal, I'd say most of the features (mostly fillets) would be unnecessary if the method was approached differently.
The shape of the right-angled base piece, including the dovetail like rails, could be created with one sketch and one Extrude/Symmetrical. Another sketch on the proper face of that part to define the curved arm that goes toward that spindle and then an Extrude/Remove of portions of that sketch to create the shape. Lastly, another sketch and a Revolve to create the spindle.
- Scotty
Re: Part Studio
Removing a part by deleting it will always retain the sketches: Something else might be built on these, too! If you want to remove all of it, you'll need to start with the earliest element that was used to build the part (in most cases the sketch) and delete that. Then all other features built upon that will become invalid and turn red in the tree. Delete these, too. BUT BE AWARE that this will kill all other parts sharing the same features! That is why they are not deleted the usual way.
Re: Hole to Slot (new featurescript)
thanks @EvanReese. I figured it out. perhaps there's a smarter/quicker way, but this works:
in V9 drag selection multiple faces for one hole can be selected so drag selection is enabled
