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Taper odd shaped parts
shane_smith605
Member Posts: 8 ✭
My hopeful plan is add a taper from the grey edge to the plane along the whole top face. What I need is for the bracket to be 5mm thicker where it attaches to the main body tapering down to actual thickness about 20mm in from the end, or the taper could go all the way to the end.
This was an existing model as I have nowhere near the skills to design something like this. The extra bit around the outside of bracket I added for extra strength. I could always delete this and re-add (I think if I remember how) after tapering just the inside component if easier.
A link to the part is below.
I'm very new to onshape from sketchup and am finding it very interesting if not challenging.
Thanks.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/407063b5212c3f52d8c1a381/w/146dadd54e6e7bbedc374418/e/44cf0cb21ac6f9dfb8ea4c8b
Answers
You've got a lot of extra surfaces in there. Cleaned up some of it to do this. Here's the link
I did it with surfacing tools, but you could do it with a loft tool. It's pretty cool what you can do with the tools once you learn them well and how to constrain the geometry.. Check out the second pic of a hood design I have in process, I don't think there is one flat surface on the hood. And didn't have to use surfacing tools till the end to get the darn fillets to work on the tabs that stick out.