Projected Extrude FeatureScript (V1.1.2)

TimRice

Over winter break I had some time to write this new featurescript which returns a part from the intersection of two nonparallel sketches. It is mostly a copy of the Projected curve feature which is already part of our feature set. Thanks to @lana and @Jake_Rosenfeld for the extra help!

MBartlett21

@TimRice

Here is a little bug-fix that fixes it not extruding enough:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b64a82008c08948ab7b4a3e9

TimRice

Thanks, I'll take a look. Did you notice a specific case where it wasn't extruded enough?

MBartlett21

Yes: your screenshot

leo_ahrens

Tim this is great! Would it be possible to add a quick feature to extrude multiple faces on a single profile at once? Kinda like on the normal extrude feature. 

Right now I am limited to only being able to select one isolate surface. Any lines cutting through a face separates the extrude not allowing to project the full part. 

Would be legendary! 
Thanks,
Leo

TimRice

@leo_ahrens
Thank you for the kind words! I am not sure what you mean though by the workflow you mentioned. Do you have a screenshot of the input geometry?

leo_ahrens

Hey Tim,

It actually was an incredibly simple fix...

All I had to do was increase the "MaxNumberOfPicks" so I could Query multiple faces for each profile. It was set to only one pick each. 

<div>&nbsp;precondition<span>{ 
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Flama, sans-serif;">annotation { "Name" : "First profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE, "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 10 }</span></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; definition.profileOne is Query;
<span>annotation { "Name" : "Second profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE, "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 10 }</span></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; definition.profileTwo is Query;
<span>}</span></div>

MBartlett21

@leo_ahrens

What would actually be a better solution would be to remove the MaxNumberOfPicks section altogether, allowing unlimited selection for each profile. The resulting precondition will be:

    precondition
    {
        annotation { "Name" : "First profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE }
        definition.profileOne is Query;
        annotation { "Name" : "Second profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE }
        definition.profileTwo is Query;
    }

TimRice

@leo_ahrens
Thank you for looking. I actually added the selection limit on purpose to ensure the two profiles are actually not coplanar. With N number of selections this could become more difficult/time consuming to check. I am looking to add support for selections of sketches in addition to faces which should allow multiple faces in a sketch to be selected. I will post here when the new version is ready.

bruce_williams

@TimRice

Glad you put this together!  Ironic - my design needed this and I did it with existing tools and then 5 minutes later I saw this thread.  Will be helpful on the next one. Thanks!

TimRice

@leo_ahrens

Just updated to V1.1.2 and added support for multiple planar faces or sketch inputs for both sides. 





https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea472c5bd213ba9124b90061/v/479fe4641dfa0356a0c36b47/e/0a8c561028bca4f5440ebd24 

leo_ahrens

Awesome! Looks good, thanks.