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FS sketch intersection

graham_lockgraham_lock Member Posts: 160 PRO

Hi,

Could somebody point me in the direction of a sample using sketch intersections from within FS please?

Thank you.

Answers

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714

    Intersection with another sketch or a face/body? Usually surface extrude and split is in there somewhere.

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • graham_lockgraham_lock Member Posts: 160 PRO

    Hi @NeilCooke,

    I need to find the intersection of faces with the sketch plane, once I have those points I need to create a spline between them.

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714

    Copy the body/face, split using the sketch plane, get the split edges (which will be lines or splines).

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • graham_lockgraham_lock Member Posts: 160 PRO

    I don’t think I accurately described my use case.

    I've created a test document at:

    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7c6ca2bc23d02b723929713c/w/29063b52b480481857e92a03/e/ad5ab431f37e97b51f03d91c

    The use case is to create longerons for fuselage formers.

    I've created one manually using a frame and it is that which I want to automate within the feature.

    Thank you.

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714

    Please make it public.

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • graham_lockgraham_lock Member Posts: 160 PRO

    Done

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714

    Can you not just use the intersection of the plane and the "Skin"?

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • graham_lockgraham_lock Member Posts: 160 PRO

    I'm not sure how to go about this?

    The Boolean tool doesn't allow sheet parts to be selected when intersecting which means that neither the skin nor plane are selectable?

    Do you have an example of what you mean which would generate the line I need for the frame path?

    Thank you.

  • jelte_steur814jelte_steur814 Member Posts: 232 PRO

    Can't you do this with an intersection curve?
    In 3D you could use https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/intersectioncurve.htm..

    On a plane you could open a sketch and use the intersection tool (dropdown below 'Use (project/convert)')

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