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Manipulating vertex's between sketches on different planes to complete a part feature
dominik_skowronski
Member Posts: 2 ✭
Hi, first post on the forum, and reletively new to cad and Onshape.
I'm doing some modeling practice on an exhaust manifold and i've created several planes for my sketch lines, which i intend on lofting to the collector flange. I'm trying to use standard schedule 10 pipe dimensions so im relying on moving the flange to wherever it needs to be in order to line all the vertecies up. As you see in the photo, there's a small 2 mm gap and another short section. ideally i'd like to coincide those points but theyre on different sketch planes and the pierce tool isn't quite achieving the results i'm looking for.
Seem to be getting ahead of myself and wondering if there's a tool ideal for this situation that i'm not aware of yet. Open to opinions on a better way to do this of course...since i wont be able to just move the flange for the rest of the cylinders.
Any feedback would be much appriciated! Thanks
I'm doing some modeling practice on an exhaust manifold and i've created several planes for my sketch lines, which i intend on lofting to the collector flange. I'm trying to use standard schedule 10 pipe dimensions so im relying on moving the flange to wherever it needs to be in order to line all the vertecies up. As you see in the photo, there's a small 2 mm gap and another short section. ideally i'd like to coincide those points but theyre on different sketch planes and the pierce tool isn't quite achieving the results i'm looking for.
Seem to be getting ahead of myself and wondering if there's a tool ideal for this situation that i'm not aware of yet. Open to opinions on a better way to do this of course...since i wont be able to just move the flange for the rest of the cylinders.
Any feedback would be much appriciated! Thanks
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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9bddf41e8d9f461ea10840f8/w/d4cf7951ee083c3de29c9791/e/79da65d8fe27fc8ee2900deb
There's also this 3D Sketch Fillet, which can take lines and add fillets. So if you can construct a bunch of straight lines which are all connected at the virtual sharps, you could use this to add the right arcs.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f2142f9b0b8676a357bed10e/w/5bfb4561275b308a9eb79a04/e/1ee5c9edc0e35853062607ce
Although if you are trying to use regular "elbows" (which I am not sure you are but it sounds like that's what you mean?), I would start with an assembly and connect your two end points using elbows (you could even just use sketches representing the elbows) mated with the relevant degrees of freedom and then fill in the straight bits using a context. Even if your aren't using elbows with set angles this might be a better approach...