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Re: New Feature: Attractor Pattern
Nice tip! Good looking results too. I didn't know about Caden's feature. My Pull Surface to Part feature was made for this purpose too, but it's enough of a hack, that I'm inclined to re-write it from scratch sometime.
Re: Set Color and Material - New FeatureScript
@NeilCooke are there any plans to integrate something like a material/property-based automatic part coloring, that can be toggled? We like the automatic part coloring for designing multiple parts within one PS but it would be really helpful to switch to a view where all parts get a specific color based on the material and maybe a property (that describes the Surface finish).
Re: Drawing circle from midpoint cause "Sketch could not be solved."
for simple designs it doesn’t make much difference other than the reason you mentioned. But when designs get complex it’s my understanding it can be preferred to do repetitive stuff outside the sketch when possible for performance reasons. I just try to make it a habit.
Learning about tools through experience doesn’t make you a Neanderthal … it makes you normal. Ha.
MDesign
Re: Drawing circle from midpoint cause "Sketch could not be solved."
seems a constraint is conflicting. if you share doc as Neil suggested someone can help narrow down what the conflict is. putting a circle on a midpoint works for me.
MDesign
Re: Drawing circle from midpoint cause "Sketch could not be solved."
Looks like your design is a great candidate for one fourth of the work you've done. maybe 1/8 with the use of mirrors and a circular pattern. A couple suggestions. use equals contraint rather than inputing variable reference for every dimension. When there's opportunity to use mirror and symmetry and patterns its highly desirable to do so.It will help avoid over constraining and narrow focus to minimum number of entities to make it easier to troubleshoot
MDesign
Re: Drawing circle from midpoint cause "Sketch could not be solved."
Your sketch could be as simple as this image or even simpler if you want to do the fillets on the solid model instead of in the sketch. the hole tool can be used to create a counter bore through both parts using the points as shown in this sketch. and the feature tree might look like the 2nd pic.
MDesign
Re: How do I get the extrude remove to intersect with the surface?
Make your solid extrude part first, then Boolean subtract it from the surface part.
Re: How to remove center mark and tapped construction geometry
Right-click the view, then go to Show/hide then hide auto centermarks and hide threads.
Re: This type of error makes my experience of onshape incredibly frustrating
@martin_danger - I can't swear to this, but I suspect there are issues with (id's/naming) of faces or edges - and this is causing the feature to fail (and why it works in two separate operations). Fillets and chamfers are notorious for being touchy concerning order of appearance issues. That's why they recommend doing those operations last, if possible. This is not a terribly good explanation, but I hope it helps a little
