How to bend a flat extrusion around a curve

saber_surfer

I made a Championship style belt plate, but it is a flat extrusion. I am unable to figure out how to bend or Flex it so that it would have the curved shape like it should have on a championship belt.

Is there a way to do that? bend an existing extrusion model across an arc or something?

steve_shubin

@saber_surfer

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/80efdae47262ec44ac1b44da/w/a0250d6607f3e6a7e5561b6d/e/bd00771bd3597e0747bbe9b6

saber_surfer

So for my current file with everything built, how do I achieve this, https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0a046cb9db94004dbd1e4cfd/w/428bdd08ea76966507be30d7/e/8c5f1a7ff3521a805a908e89

steve_shubin

saber_surfer said:

So for my current file with everything built, how do I achieve this,

For starters, this document should be broken down into more than one sketch

Then you could wrap each of the sketches SEPARATELY and thicken them SEPARATELY. Using this technique, it made it far easier for me to thicken the two separate entities of the buckle I made

In any CAD program, make good effort to keep your sketches from becoming overly involved. In other words, instead of trying to do it all on one layer, break it out into multiple layers. In the case of Onshape, break it out into multiple sketches

in your case, I probably would’ve used — I don’t know — maybe six or seven different sketches. Maybe more

Now, there’s another aspect of this that I’m not crazy about. And that is, that  it appears that you were snapping to or going coincident to some underlying vector file — which I can’t see.

Myself, I’m not crazy about having all these coincident points to an underlying file. I’ll trace over the underlying. But I don’t want to make everything coincident to that because — for one example — you could see that without having that underlying vector  — I get nothing but a bunch of overdefined constraints when I first open up your document. And that’s not great to work with

And the last point I’ll bring up for the moment is — I’m not a big fan of using a lot of very closely spaced points to make up a curve WHEN TRACING over something

For instance, instead of making a curve this way

I’d rather make a curve this way


Again — this is a matter of making things more manageable or easier to edit, smoother — all that kind of stuff

saber_surfer

Indeed, I used a hand drawing in the background as reference, didn't realize it would attach itself to it. And this was my first time using Onshape or any CAD program for that matter so am not too familiar with the functions and such, Just fumbling my way through it to try and make something for a Wrestling fan, my Dads 70th birthday ;D

steve_shubin

@saber_surfer

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4d056f95662ea71348229f52/w/61bb36ffbc357eab95773f52/e/d2d3155acfe9bf4d136a82d6

dirk_van_der_vaart

@steve_shubin
That,s helping, a very nice present!!!!!

steve_shubin

@dirk_van_der_vaart

Thanks Dirk !
I really appreciate it

dirk_van_der_vaart

@saber_surfer
You are on a holiday?

saber_surfer

Oh, wow. That's is very nicely done indeed, thank you so much @steve_shubin

Some day I will figure this stuff out.