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Feature Request: Crossbreak tool
Jon_God_Hirschtick
Member Posts: 5 ✭
I'm missing a crossbreak tool in Onshape for sheet metal. Is this on the list of things to be added, or is this not possible?
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Resurrecting this lonely thread — I could also really use this feature, I'm currently running into the need for it with a client of mine and have to do some engineering drawings hacks to communicate to our manufacturer the need for a cross brake (break?) in a large panel. Throwing in my vote!
nick
+1
Now that Onshape has Sheet Metal Form, which doesn't modify the flat pattern of the part but does drop a sketch entity onto the flat this should be possible now. Perhaps without involvement of a new custom featurescript if you're clever enough with variables and creating your tool
As far as I know the form tool doesn't (yet) work across bends. One would hope that they get to this. Forming does get them closer…
[edit - duh I was thinking you meant a gusset]
Shouldn't be a problem, cross break tools in other CAD systems seem to take a flat face and simply add sketch notation to the flat pattern without changing geometry, so this could work in a similar way but actually adding the former geometry to the 3d view. I'll cook something later today to show what I'm thinking.
Here's a basic example of how you can make a form tool to do this kind of geometry without needing to make a custom featurescript. Note that you can't extend the form tool all the way to the edges of any of the panels because the sheet metal kernel will freak out.
I could have made the geometry fancier with fillets for the sheet metal or made the dimensioning be done via angle callout but I'll leave those improvements as an exercise for the reader.