How to wrap a loft around a cylinder
So I'm trying to wrap this triangular figure around a cylinder but it will only wrap the bottom portion and not the top of the triangle.
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Onshape doesn't currently support part wrap / flex / bend, only surface and sketch wrapping.
However, you can use the Thicken tool to thicken your wrapped 2d surface into a 3d part, then preform another loft to a point, in order to get the shape in your image.
If you need more specific help for your model, please share a link with copy access to your document.
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I can't wait till we do get bendy flexy features though!
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I put a decent chunk of work into a flex feature but have run up against a bit of a wall with the base level functions available in featurescript at the moment. I stepped away from it to wait for new transform types or a new surface approximation routine that works closer to the approximate curve function. Then I ran into this SIGGRAPH whitepaper that made me reevaluate the approach, which probably still requires some low level @ functions to be implemented before it's viable.
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It'll open up some really powerful stuff when they do
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I'm not even talking features, I'm just waiting for kernel level functions and I'll start bringing the features.
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long ago i created this feature for non linear transform, since that moment a lot of improvements to fs standard library was made, so now it could probably be made more accurate and faster
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