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Introducing Enanced Planes: Make tangent planes much easier!
dave_cowden
Member, Developers Posts: 474 ✭✭✭
Have you ever wished it was easier to create planes, especially tangent planes? We're pleased to announce a free public Beta of our Enhanced Planes Featurescript plugin.
With Enhanced Planes, you can create a planes:
Read more about it here, or get started right away:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0de04acb5bac92ca16796edf/w/cdd1d1882311084fe54bff24/e/a5d41dfaf231356100c09b1a
We have several other cool addins in our store, including a tool to create 3D points from text, a socket screw creator, and an ansi washer creator.
http://store.parametricparts.com/products.html
Is there another type of plane you wish was fewer steps to create? Let us know!
With Enhanced Planes, you can create a planes:
- Normal to edges
- Tangent to surfaces at a point
- Tangent to surfaces and aligned with another plane or direction
- Arrays of midplanes, both parallel and rotated
- Arrays of offset planes
- Plane defined by 1 edge that can define a plane
Read more about it here, or get started right away:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0de04acb5bac92ca16796edf/w/cdd1d1882311084fe54bff24/e/a5d41dfaf231356100c09b1a
We have several other cool addins in our store, including a tool to create 3D points from text, a socket screw creator, and an ansi washer creator.
http://store.parametricparts.com/products.html
Is there another type of plane you wish was fewer steps to create? Let us know!
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Inputs: Surface
Point on the surface
Linear/circular
reference direction line
if circular:
angle from direction [default 360 ]
spacing (angular units)
count
if linear:
spacing (length units)
# in x
# in y
Output: Tangent planes on surface at each point
Is that about right?
what if I added an entity selection to the above, and then patterned it onto the planes for you?