Welcome to the Onshape forum! Ask questions and join in the discussions about everything Onshape.
First time visiting? Here are some places to start:- Looking for a certain topic? Check out the categories filter or use Search (upper right).
- Need support? Ask a question to our Community Support category.
- Please submit support tickets for bugs but you can request improvements in the Product Feedback category.
- Be respectful, on topic and if you see a problem, Flag it.
If you would like to contact our Community Manager personally, feel free to send a private message or an email.
How to use loft tool to combine 2 imported objects with dissimilar geometry
delta_green
Member Posts: 4 ✭
Hi there,
new to CAD, new to Onschape, first ever project and very first question: I imported 2 objects that are somehow round'ish and that i want to combine with solid through the loft tool (after doing research i learned that that is what i'm imagining here). I created 2 planes touching the surfaces of the objects that need to be combined. My problem is i don't know how to create sketches that follow the contours of the objects to define the lines that are supposes to be combines through loft. I'm not there yet, don't even know how to use the loft tool once i get to it, so any help will be appreciated. Here's a link to the respective project:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3a773c3eb3cac35197c75efd/w/c0d9c8e1bfd10b0356657391/e/a31026c6eaaecc20ecf1fb44
Later on (maybe a good idea to mention this here) i want to pierce the solid generated though loft to form a mesh/grid somehow, but i suppose that's an entire other problem.
Sincerely,
Best Answer
-
MDesign
Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭
This is not really project to start with while being new to CAD AND new to Onshape.. I'd suggest using the learning.onshape.com website first then come back and try to model these objects from scratch instead of trying to jump right into hybrid modeling. I understand you may not be familiar with that term but believe me, doing what you want to do is going to be challenging with your current level of CAD experience.
To answer your question though. learning how to use constraints is how you get things to align.
1
Answers
If at all possible, import STEP or Parasolid of those parts. What you have is a mesh which is much harder to work with. The shapes are simple enough that you could remodel them, but it would be easier if you didn't have to.
This is not really project to start with while being new to CAD AND new to Onshape.. I'd suggest using the learning.onshape.com website first then come back and try to model these objects from scratch instead of trying to jump right into hybrid modeling. I understand you may not be familiar with that term but believe me, doing what you want to do is going to be challenging with your current level of CAD experience.
To answer your question though. learning how to use constraints is how you get things to align.
Ok, thanks for your reply, i'll look into that, so to convert into STEP somehow and from there go on,
Thanks for the link and the tip to get into constraints, truly, my terminology may be off and i'm so busy i tried to avoid to get more into research but i guess there are no shortcuts 😅
If your going to try to convert to STEP, you might as well just model it from scratch. Yes not really any shortcuts unless you can get AI to do it for you. 😜