crazy Attractor Pattern feature coming soon, had to share

EvanReese

Cool articles! thanks for sharing

EvanReese

mark_leichliter said:

Yes - this is brilliant!

Great! Go ahead and switch to Onshape and I'll just wait for my referral check to arrive

I'm kidding about the check, but serious that Onshape should make the rest of your modeling easier if your products are similar to what you're showing above. The only other area I could see Rhino winning is in making a flat pattern of the parabolic-looking awning. With OS sheet metal it would have to be made of a series of arcs to work (I think)

MBartlett21

Evan_Reese said:

mark_leichliter said:

Yes - this is brilliant!

Great! Go ahead and switch to Onshape and I'll just wait for my referral check to arrive

I'm kidding about the check, but serious that Onshape should make the rest of your modeling easier if your products are similar to what you're showing above. The only other area I could see Rhino winning is in making a flat pattern of the parabolic-looking awning. With OS sheet metal it would have to be made of a series of arcs to work (I think)

(emphasis mine)

@Evan_Reese
Onshape has supported structures like that in sheet metal for a while now

emagdalenaC2i

Yes, and you can do things like this

EvanReese

daaaang! I haven't used sheet metal tools in quite a while, and never did very much anyway. Good to know. I end up designing mostly for molded parts. Alright @mark_leichliter welcome into the fold, brother. No excuses 

mark_leichliter

Consider me folded!

alnis

You can also do things like this:

kael_c

Excuse me, Im interested in using this but im a Highschool student and i dont know where to start or what to do, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd images you sent are interesting. I would probably learn a bit just from things like the 2nd image alone. It looks really cool and i could use it on other projects and such. A Step by Step guide would be really helpful, but that would probably take quite a bit of time so its not expected

MichaelPascoe

@kael_c here is a link to Evan's Attractor pattern post: 
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/14301/new-feature-attractor-pattern

That page contains links to a tutorial video and to the feature where you can add it to your tool bar.