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Make nearby points within threshold coincident?
craig_ringer
Member Posts: 6 ✭
Hi folks
I have an imported sketch where a curve is composed of many points. It has a bunch of unclosed regions due to tiny differences in the start of one line vs the end of the next.
I'd like to add coincident constraints to every point that's within some small threshold of another point, but can't seem to find a way to do this. Is there any way to do it in Onshape?
I'm aware I could - and may have to - trace the shape instead. But this problem comes up somewhat often, and the shapes aren't always very practical to trace. Tracking down every disconnected edge is really painful to do manually, specially since Onshape doesn't visually distinguish connected vs disconnected ends of edges in any way.
In this case, all the white areas should be enclosed regions. Finding the gaps is going to be a nightmare, especially since this is quite a long strip pattern. (It's imported via DXF from SVG, since Onshape lacks native SVG import).
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no easy way around it unfortunately. other than finding another program to pre process the entities into curves/splines. don't think there's a way to imply coincident yet. Been suggested though.
Hey Craig. I understand you were seeking a method to easily fix the sketch in lieu of correcting all the errors. Since the pattern looks repetitive, you might be able to fix or redraw a portion of it and then do a Linear Pattern of it. - Scotty
That's what I landed up doing. Thanks @robert_scott_jr_ .
Then I discovered that the linear pattern tool … doesn't support beziers and splines. Argh.
Thankfully with some kludging I was able to use the pattern tool on the extruded solid. But what a pain.
Unfortunately the patterns aren't always so repetitive.