Creating ribs from lines rather than sketch entities?

brooks_talley

I'm working on a project that needs a bunch of ribs in irregular locations. All of them need to come from lines on the same transform/copied part, but they are kind of all over the place.

Is there a better/easier way to get a rib from a line (intersection of two faces) than creating one plane per instance just to draw that one line for a rib?

Sample (I need ribs from the highlighted section to the next face):

Dylan_Stewart

Sounds like a perfect scenario for FeatureScript!! Do you have any experience writing code?

brooks_talley

I have a lot of experience writing code, but this project runs the risk of going recursive on me, since the physical design is for a lighting fixture to hold the lights that I'm writing the code for. 

I've barely looked at FeatureScript, but it strikes me as Javascript-like. Where would you start for my rib feature? Is the built-in rib feature implemented in FeatureScript that I can evolve/adapt?

brucebartlett

You could start with this Feature Script.  
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57363e63e4b0b9290a2ccf9f/w/952468d3837ec1721d50a187/e/405008d3756159b120f40d67