Splitting parts a large number of times for laser cutting

thomas_homes207

Is there a quick way to split up a part potentially hundreds of times into individual sections of a desired thickness along a certain axis of the part?

I wish to manufacture the part by laser cutting the sections and then glueing the sections together end on end along their faces. I know I could use the split tool to split the part, but is the a short cut to split the part into x parts each of a desired width?

Thank you.

nick_papageorge_dayjob

There might be some automated featurscript?

To do it with the native features, one possibility could be to model a surface to split the part. Then, pattern the surface over the entire part, with the spacing you want each piece to be. Then use the split command. Unfortunately, you can only use one surface to split a part. So you'd have to use the split command for each surface.

Maybe someone else will have a better idea…

MDesign

One of the few times it probably makes sense to pattern in a sketch. Create a sketch with a pattern from which to create a single surface. Use that surface which intersecta the part many times to split it all at once.

mquayle

FeatureScript Slicer

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0a018ea4cf9b04de135c27c3/v/9d6062ab781ac5d6d40be3be/e/467caac9be08a313bcaaa3d1

derek_van_allen

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0a018ea4cf9b04de135c27c3/v/9d6062ab781ac5d6d40be3be/e/87a52ca30fb0ef20fb54540c

Body Slicer Featurescript. It's mediocre (self described by the author) but it gets the job done. The way he did the first face boundaries is a bit hacky where you need to draw something in a sketch bigger than the object you're slicing to get it to build sometimes. I should go back and fix that at some point and re-post it to the forums, but then I'm gonna want to patch back in the rest of the functionality that I miss from 123D Make and my life is already inundated with topological edge case handling so it's a backburner project.