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Re: Comparison Two Features/Parts/Surfaces in the Same Version
If I understand this correctly, you could just branch of the version and then compare the branched workspace with the initial version.
Re: Onshape Tech Meetup, Bristol, UK - May 16th, 2024
You know Manchester is the place to be!
Re: Onshape Tech Meetup, Bristol, UK - May 16th, 2024
I keep telling themSte_Wilson said:You know Manchester is the place to be!
Re: Internal volume measuring tool
I used NeilCooke's Simplify tool to "Remove open voids", clicking on the Edge of the hole in the guitar box. This created a Surface over the hole.
I then did an Enclose and selected all the Parts forming the sides of the box plus the new Surface.
This gave me a new Part, which is the shape of the internal volume. I assigned this a material, custom, with the density of air, and made it semi-transparent.
I can get the surface area of a face of this volume with the Measure tool, and the volume with the Mass Properties tool.
It works great, gave me everything I wanted.
Greg
I then did an Enclose and selected all the Parts forming the sides of the box plus the new Surface.
This gave me a new Part, which is the shape of the internal volume. I assigned this a material, custom, with the density of air, and made it semi-transparent.
I can get the surface area of a face of this volume with the Measure tool, and the volume with the Mass Properties tool.
It works great, gave me everything I wanted.
Greg
Re: Using the Transform Function in FeatureSctipt
Hi Mario,
All you need to do is use opTransform with a scaling transform in order to scale a sketch.
You will need to decide how to scale the sketch, ie about a point, uniformly vs non-uniformly etc.
Here is a sample:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/44250afbeb494efd33079dfc/w/9fd1d6964469168e13e5a13a/e/141efda7344902ed80fe5238
All you need to do is use opTransform with a scaling transform in order to scale a sketch.
You will need to decide how to scale the sketch, ie about a point, uniformly vs non-uniformly etc.
Here is a sample:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/44250afbeb494efd33079dfc/w/9fd1d6964469168e13e5a13a/e/141efda7344902ed80fe5238
Re: Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing
@NeilCooke
One more thing: I'm sure there's a plan for showing the strip lengths for the cable jacket (guessing columns in the table), but we also would like a mechanism to see the length of a segment between two clips. One of the things we use 3d cable routes is to check what happens to a cable when our enclosure door is open vs closed so we need to match the length of the spans between the last clip on the door span and the first clip on the fixed side. These can be drawn as two separate routes and it works well enough but right now you can only measure the length of the spline when the "show wires/cables" is unchecked.
EDIT: ok, I just realized that the curve remains even when the checkbox is on, however it's hard to get to since it's invisible. It can be reached through "select other" so this might be good enough for now...
I guess a "straightened" version would also benefit from including that information so a mechanism for that would be nice...
One more thing: I'm sure there's a plan for showing the strip lengths for the cable jacket (guessing columns in the table), but we also would like a mechanism to see the length of a segment between two clips. One of the things we use 3d cable routes is to check what happens to a cable when our enclosure door is open vs closed so we need to match the length of the spans between the last clip on the door span and the first clip on the fixed side. These can be drawn as two separate routes and it works well enough but right now you can only measure the length of the spline when the "show wires/cables" is unchecked.
EDIT: ok, I just realized that the curve remains even when the checkbox is on, however it's hard to get to since it's invisible. It can be reached through "select other" so this might be good enough for now...
I guess a "straightened" version would also benefit from including that information so a mechanism for that would be nice...
Re: Internal volume measuring tool
They're not doing anything special here. I could modify my Simplify script to do this and it would be much more efficient. For now, you can do a before/after volume check and calc the difference.gregory_holmberg said:This would be very useful to me, since I need the internal volume of an acoustic guitar.
Fusion 360 has it. https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-E839C0D9-E60A-4F81-A748-4A11C734DD61
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3f84343841cb6d7fead072c8