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How to loft along a percentage of a guide
Ranon_Greyber
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I am creating a camera mount for an FRC robot, and need to make a bit of room for its heat sink. With the goal of maintaining strength, I would like to keep a certain percentage of the mount, (30,50,60? idk) as solid material, with the other portion of it being structured to let heat out. The first x% of the loft, starting from the non-camera side, would be solid, and the rest would be structured in another way. Is there a way to create surface which represents x% along the path of the loft at every point on the surface. I know how to make points along the curved paths, but I don't know how to do the surface. Below is a rough image of what I want, with the red being an exaggerated version of how the surface would curve along. The blue, is a representation of the flat surface I want to avoid making.
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You could use 3D points by @Evan_Reese to place planes at a percentage along the path of the loft. Then sketch the profiles. You could even keep the original loft as a guide so that you can control how much you want your profiles to change from the original as they move along the path.
Example
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ce91f650cceb7199227a58d8/w/793c9779849a11c517c2c081/e/8517c863dd63cd...
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