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Ability to duplicate features feature request
jonas_conner
Member Posts: 2 EDU
Hello,
Often times you are making several features that are very similar to each other, but not identical and cannot be patterned. A good example of this is cutting holes for different sized screws or snap-fits that are similar but have different sizes/thicknesses. This would be especially helpful when the sketch has many small faces that need to be manually selected. The ability to duplicate and edit features such as extrusions would be amazing and speed this up significantly, (e.g. duplicate the extrusion but change the depth and offset entity)
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In CadSharp toolbox app there is a subapp for feature duplication among other helpfull tools:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/28753/cadsharp-toolbox-app-free#latest
I've been requesting this as core functionality for years. I keep running into use-cases!
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The SmartBench app Renaissance can do this (among many other things).
There are some neat tricks you can do with feature patterns and variables (like patterning variables that increase), but sometimes its a bit more effort than its worth.
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