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Using Featurescript generated sketch as profile in loft
fst
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Hi! I have created a new FeatureScript that draws a parametric sketch (so I can make patterns that depend on parameters - something that is currently not possible with the sketcher).
This worked well so far, I can use two instances of the new feature to create one sketch on parallel construction planes each.
Now I want to loft the sketches. My first intuitive attemps was to click on "profile" in the loft and then on the two custom features. But apparently I cannot select the two features, even though they generate (just) a sketch each, they don't seem to count as sketch/profile. And I cannot type sketch names either (the name of the sketch that is created by the featurescript is just id + "_sketch", so it would be easy to derive).
Can I somehow declare that a custom featurescript returns (and thus should be treated like) a sketch?
Alternatively I could create the entire body with several such sketches and lofts in between inside one featurescript - but being able to do the lofting in the UI might be nicer as it keeps the Featurescript part to a minimum - is this possible?
This worked well so far, I can use two instances of the new feature to create one sketch on parallel construction planes each.
Now I want to loft the sketches. My first intuitive attemps was to click on "profile" in the loft and then on the two custom features. But apparently I cannot select the two features, even though they generate (just) a sketch each, they don't seem to count as sketch/profile. And I cannot type sketch names either (the name of the sketch that is created by the featurescript is just id + "_sketch", so it would be easy to derive).
Can I somehow declare that a custom featurescript returns (and thus should be treated like) a sketch?
Alternatively I could create the entire body with several such sketches and lofts in between inside one featurescript - but being able to do the lofting in the UI might be nicer as it keeps the Featurescript part to a minimum - is this possible?
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or are you not seeing the sketches generated by your FS?