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BUG: parameters not applied to sketch after "use" AND "transform"
stuart_robinson
Member Posts: 31 ✭
steps:
1. draw a sketch on Plane 1
2. "use" it onto a sketch on Plane 2
3. "transform" the new ("used") sketch (move or rotate)
4. modify the Plane 1 sketch
EXPECTED:
the Plane 2 sketch reflects the changes to Plane 1 sketch
ACTUAL:
plane 2 sketch is unchanged.
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note: if you skip step "3", above, the Plane 2 sketch does indeed reflect the changes.
this is all particularly problematic for me because after using and rotating a sketch that was based on a bunch of variables.... if i change the variables, nothing changes in the used&transformed versions
1. draw a sketch on Plane 1
2. "use" it onto a sketch on Plane 2
3. "transform" the new ("used") sketch (move or rotate)
4. modify the Plane 1 sketch
EXPECTED:
the Plane 2 sketch reflects the changes to Plane 1 sketch
ACTUAL:
plane 2 sketch is unchanged.
------------------
note: if you skip step "3", above, the Plane 2 sketch does indeed reflect the changes.
this is all particularly problematic for me because after using and rotating a sketch that was based on a bunch of variables.... if i change the variables, nothing changes in the used&transformed versions
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Comments
Tell us what you're trying to achieve and I'm sure somebody will have a viable (and probably better / more robust) workaround.
You could also use the "transform pattern" FS (can we get the "native" transform to transform sketches too?) to move the second sketch but I'm not sure how much that helps you...
You can always create a new sketch on the transformed surface of sketch to add new things to it...
@NeilCooke why does it have to? (break references) transforming a part doesn't break its references. i dont see why rotating a sketch or moving it around would have to break its dimensional parameters
i'm designing a propeller. i want to draw a single airfoil containing internal structures, and then replicate that sketch along cross sections of the propeller while changing. i'd like to use variables to define the initial airfoil dimensions, spar dimensions, and all the angles of the cross sections (every few inches)
what i've been doing is extruding the base airfoil and then patterning it out and then rotating all the pattern's parts, and then converting the part faces back to sketches for lofting the internal bits.
and the issue is not so much doing the loft, as it is getting the intermediate chords in position. in a way where they are based on variables and relationships. is there a better way to do that than the work-around of extruding the first airfoil in order to create and transform 3d parts, and then creating new sketches from the parts?
i need sketches for the intermediate chords in order to loft the internal spars and supports. couldnt figure out a way to do everything just from the the patterned parts