Sketch on Mate Connector

nlazzara

I'm working on a featurescript that takes a mate connector as an input, makes a sketch on a plane that is orthogonal to the mate connector, and revolves the sketch. My question is, if I create a mate connector with opMateConnector, how do I later query it for use in other functions like newSketchOnPlane? (for context of the code snippet, upperMC is an evMateConnector of the input mate connector)

    opMateConnector(context, id + "mateConnector1", {
                    "coordSystem" : upperMC
                });

        opTransform(context, id + "transform3", {
                    "bodies" : qCreatedBy(id + "mateConnector1", EntityType.BODY),
                    "transform" : rotationAround(line(upperMC.origin, upperMC.xAxis), 90 * degree)
                });
        var newSketchMC = evMateConnector(context, {
                "mateConnector" : qCreatedBy(id + "transform3", EntityType.BODY)
            });


        const sketchUpperID = id + "upperBore";
        const upperBore = newSketchOnPlane(context, id + "sketch1", {
                    "sketchPlane" : qUnion([newSketchMC])
                });

NeilCooke

Do you need the MC in the final feature? You could just apply the transform to upperMC cSys, then use plane(cSys).

Otherwise, try:

var newSketchMC = evMateConnector(context, {
                "mateConnector" : qCreatedBy(id + "mateConnector1", EntityType.BODY)
            });


        const sketchUpperID = id + "upperBore";
        const upperBore = newSketchOnPlane(context, id + "sketch1", {
                    "sketchPlane" : plane(newSketchMC)
                });

nlazzara

Thanks Neil! That did the trick. Still getting my head around selecting/querying things that I create within featurescripts.