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Is it possible to extrude a Cylinder arround a line with a given diameter without using a sketch?

RubensPurple
RubensPurple Member Posts: 2 ✭
in FeatureScript
Dear folks,

Is it possible to extrude a Cylinder arround a line with a given diameter without using a sketch?
 i m first draw a line with two points and the function opFitSpline, than i want to extrude a Cylinder with a diameter, which i give in the annotation, around the created line.

thanks

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  • mahir
    mahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't believe that is possible. You're essentially trying to thicken a line, but thicken requires a surface input, not a curve. You will need to extrude a sketched circle or some other circular geometry. 
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    Would fCylinder do what you want?
    https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#fCylinder-Context-Id-map
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • mahir
    mahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, I stand (or sit) corrected
  • Jake_Rosenfeld
    Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 image
    edited April 2020
    Technically fCylinder does use a sketch, you just don't have to make it yourself.  So you can be right too @mahir :)
    Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team
  • mahir
    mahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jake_Rosenfeld said:
    you can be right too @mahir :)
    @Jake_Rosenfeld, shhh don't tell my wife :wink:
  • jrs_spedley
    jrs_spedley Member Posts: 71 ✭✭
    edited April 2020
    This reminds me of how many times I've wanted to use a point in a sketch as the axis for a rotation but I have to create a perpendicular plane, then a sketch, then a perpendicular line ...
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,100 PRO
    @jrs_spedley you can just add a mate connector to the point. Then rotate on its z axis

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