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2D profile alignment (left/center/right, top/middle/bottom)
adamohern
Member, OS Professional Posts: 216 PRO
When extruding profiles, is there a way of creating a graphical alignment input for aligning the profile?
For example, when extruding a rectangle, I may want to align it to top/middle/bottom on the vertical axis, or left/center/right on the horizontal. I currently do this with two enum dropdown menus, but it's cumbersome and unintuitive.
Suggestions?
For example, when extruding a rectangle, I may want to align it to top/middle/bottom on the vertical axis, or left/center/right on the horizontal. I currently do this with two enum dropdown menus, but it's cumbersome and unintuitive.
Suggestions?
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ilya_baran Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 1,215Ah, ok, I totally misunderstood what you were looking for. We currently don't have such a control, so I can't think of a better solution than two enums.Ilya Baran \ VP, Architecture and FeatureScript \ Onshape Inc5
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Here's an example from Frame Generator in Inventor. They're just giving you radio buttons to choose a corner.
A 3D manipulator could work, I suppose, but I haven't seen one in Onshape that would do what I need. I really want to choose one of six positions as destinct alignment locations, not a free-drag. I suppose I could add a 3D manipulator gnomon and then snap to various positions based on where the manipulator is dragged, but that sounds pretty complicated.
Also you can add the option to rotate and mirror the profile.
We will be love to help in this development if you want.
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I think the only clean way to do this is with some kind of manipulator. I'll have to think about it.
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