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Manipulator Style Cheat Sheet?

S1mon
S1mon Member Posts: 4,456 PRO
edited February 11 in FeatureScript

Does anyone have a cheat sheet for all the manipulator styles/types? There are no illustrations in the standard docs and I had to dig around to figure out that the one I was looking for is called "tangential".

See also:

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/30130/add-illustrations-to-the-standard-library-documentation

Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn

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  • Caden_Armstrong
    Caden_Armstrong Member Posts: 461 PRO

    Default:

    image.png


    Secondary:

    image.png

    Simple:

    image.png

    Tangential:

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  • S1mon
    S1mon Member Posts: 4,456 PRO

    @Caden_Armstrong

    Thanks. That covers the styles:

    image.png

    But then there are also a bunch of types:

    image.png

    And then, can I have a secondary/triad_full?

    Angular is really painful without a diagram of what the various inputs mean:

    image.png

    When I set up a pretty simple test feature, it took me a lot of flipping and axis choices to get to the point where I finally got the draft manipulator on this in the right orientation:

    image.png

    Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn

  • Caden_Armstrong
    Caden_Armstrong Member Posts: 461 PRO

    At some point in programming you just got to try it out and see for yourself.
    Its part of why featurescript is great, its really easy to whip together a quick sample just to test things out.

    What about the angular documentation could be improved? To me, everything looks pretty well explained.

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  • S1mon
    S1mon Member Posts: 4,456 PRO

    In retrospect, I guess the angular info is clear-ish. However, as I was trying to use it to drive draft, in my brain, pull direction is one of the most important "axes", and I assumed the stationary line of the manipulator was the axis. The axis is actually not a visible part of the manipulator at all. It's the axis of rotation. Again, in retrospect, I imagine that the positive z of that vector defines which way the angle winds, and the x or the y defines the stationary part. However, a simple diagram would have really made that a lot more clear.

    Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn

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