Move Face Translation Using Vector Addition

Kyler_Walker

I am moving a face by some amount in one direction and some amount in the orthogonal direction. I would appreciate if I could, in the same feature, move in multiple directions.  I would propose treating the resultant move as the vector sum of each magnitude and direction pair. This would help reduce the number of features I need.

lougallo

Although this would be possible in a custom feature, most use cases are not adding different vector transforms per face. This could be done with an array parameter however if you are doing offsets, this is possible due to the implied direction. One thing that can make this more complex is from a troubleshooting standpoint when you have nested properties like this and you are hunting down what has moved a face a specific direction.

I am interested in understanding your process here.

Kyler_Walker

lougallo said:

Although this would be possible in a custom feature, most use cases are not adding different vector transforms per face. This could be done with an array parameter however if you are doing offsets, this is possible due to the implied direction. One thing that can make this more complex is from a troubleshooting standpoint when you have nested properties like this and you are hunting down what has moved a face a specific direction.

I am interested in understanding your process here.

When I wrote this, I was working from a derived part and moving faces around.  I think it makes sense do define my moves by breaking them into orthogonal components. I ended up with 14 move face features and was thinking it took up a lot of space and made my feature tree confusing.  An alternative method that would also be convenient would be to allow lines and edges to specify not only direction, but magnitude as well.  Then I could make one sketch to define all of my moves that are parallel to the plane of the sketch.  I could edit the x and y component of any "Move Face" feature by changing dimensions in that sketch.  As an alternative to using an line/edge to define magnitude, it might be okay If I could use a dimension in a sketch to define a variable which I use to set the magnitude of the "Move Face."