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Help making a 3d rhombus grid in the shape of a truncated cone
cobjayamc
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Hi, I've been struggling to figure out how I can make a rhombus grid in the shape of a truncated cone. I have 4 rings that are the shape of the TC, (if that makes sense). I want to make a grid that goes through all the rings. I've attached an image of the model I've made, and what its based off. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it.
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Realistically you shouldn't actually model a mesh like that for most manufacturing methods.
If you're 3D printing it's another story. In that case, here's an approach, but be forewarned sometimes this kind of thing will bog way down because you're asking Onshape to do so much math and produce so much geometry. Oddly in this case it's pretty darn snappy at 92ms! By the way, performance is the reason I've not bothered merging them in Onshape. Booleans take a lot of compute to do and you can still export and 3D print them as one part even if they aren't merged. I just tested and merging it and it spun forever and suggested I try recovering it (and I may have caught an AWS server on fire).
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e3d54af96884a2747845079d/w/f3c4bf2bec6acca6323a4df8/e/fafaed7a7826894447de282f
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