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Slick trick for force closing a sketch profile in FS?
Stormi_Backus
Member Posts: 49 ✭
Howdy,
My company recently switched to OS from Alibre so I am re-vamping all of our configurators with FS. This went super well for roller chain sprockets/bushings but I am struggling with welded steel and pintle chain sprockets because the mathematics in the ASME are JUST imprecise enough to prevent a closed sketch profile. We're talking 0.000000 - OnShape can't even measure the distance between the point and circle highlighted below.
I found a way around this by using configurations instead of featurescript as you can see here, but my coworkers vastly prefer having the FS in their toolbar over having to insert a configuration.
So, I am wondering, does any one have a slick trick for forcing a closed profile in featurescript? Maybe there's something obvious I am over looking? Any solution I've thought of wouldn't hold true from part to part. Thanks!
My company recently switched to OS from Alibre so I am re-vamping all of our configurators with FS. This went super well for roller chain sprockets/bushings but I am struggling with welded steel and pintle chain sprockets because the mathematics in the ASME are JUST imprecise enough to prevent a closed sketch profile. We're talking 0.000000 - OnShape can't even measure the distance between the point and circle highlighted below.
I found a way around this by using configurations instead of featurescript as you can see here, but my coworkers vastly prefer having the FS in their toolbar over having to insert a configuration.
So, I am wondering, does any one have a slick trick for forcing a closed profile in featurescript? Maybe there's something obvious I am over looking? Any solution I've thought of wouldn't hold true from part to part. Thanks!
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It is likely that fill will still close it.
if the edges that are supposed to be touching, do not meet at a vertex, then it gets more complicated.
If they do meet at a vertex, you can modify the arcs, lines by just creating a new sketch with the existing geometry's data. if it is a spline, its safe in this case to get the bspline curve and just adjust one of the end points to meet correctly.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a4d1c9f3b7a0d44474d08e3a/w/bc8c3641dcb96ce97747b8c3/e/83c5157ece1ed11095b76673?renderMode=0&uiState=65086c2fc0945d677f732a03
I cant even find what you are referring to in the model.