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Grid Extrude Custom Feature

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I've just released a new custom feature called Grid Extrude (get the feature HERE).
It works like the normal extrude feature, but extrudes a network of shapes like this. I made it mostly to make networks of drafted ribs to reinforce plastic parts, but there are other uses too. You can watch the video tour HERE. Give it a go and let me know what you think!

It works like the normal extrude feature, but extrudes a network of shapes like this. I made it mostly to make networks of drafted ribs to reinforce plastic parts, but there are other uses too. You can watch the video tour HERE. Give it a go and let me know what you think!

Evan Reese / Principal and Industrial Designer with Ovyl
Website: ovyl.io
Website: ovyl.io
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Yes!
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This is really nice, good job!
Can you? They're a pain to construct manually.
You can choose a triangle as the pattern, but it doesn't have the little holes at the nodes like the isogrid images I'm seeing
Website: ovyl.io
yes indeed. The closer you look the more it will remind you of it, because the bbox and transform math of your feature was the basis for handling the transforms. Thanks for making it and putting it out there.
Website: ovyl.io
Website: ovyl.io
Julia's Featurescripts | Isogrid (onshape.com)
Website: ovyl.io
I've been running into a number of bugs and limitations with this feature, as have others. I've re-worked a lot of it and I think it's much more usable now, and with better performance too.
Major changes are:
Website: ovyl.io
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
Website: ovyl.io
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign