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having trouble getting this flatten part thing to work

ian_whaples807
ian_whaples807 Member Posts: 10 ✭
edited October 21 in Community Support

with the help of an AI custom feature i was able to create this nice flower shape, but now I want to be able to flatten the part using the back as a reference to be flat, that way I can print it and thermoform it to the desired shape. I've been trying to get Claude to make another custom feature to do this but it keeps not quite working out. any suggestions?

the best I was able to do included post processing to clean it up and its still not right.

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my idea was to have something like flatten surface, but have it be able to map the geometry along with the surface. that didn't seem to work because of what the api exposes to the script, so instead it does its own mapping and then extrudes it out, and since the pedals are at different levels it maps wrong causing some realignment clean up with replace face, also since its a sampled mapping there needs to me an approximated spline causing pedals to blend together instead of having sharp corners. that's at least what I understand form my vibe coding, I'm a drafter, not a programmer.

v6 is the baseline before I started to mess with the flattening idea,

v7 and the branches after that is where I tried to start making something.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5194f8f4f1af88d3284b6391/v/eb4d1739937b3afbe71c9cb5/e/ff483d516a3551f8a2a89e9f?renderMode=0&uiState=6ad82f025b5abcf9bbffa43b

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