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Custom Feature - Random Extrude
Caden_Armstrong
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What does it do? It extrudes selected faces a random amount within the given range.
What else does it do? It can also loft those faces to a point (making pyramids).
What more could you need?
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Experts in Onshape Automation - Custom Features and Integrated Applications
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I've long thought that many features in CAD would be better with a little applied RNG. That being said if I'm gonna be doing ranked competitive extrusions it might be nice to have a set seed option to be able to come back to the perfect seed pattern for my part studios without leaving the run down to pure chance. For example the implementation in OnlyTabs exposes the seed field as editable so I have potential outs for the eventual day that I need to create swappable sheet metal plates that are physically compatible across different documents.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerThat's a fun one. :0)
I sometimes create dummy components on PCBs for illustrational purposes and this seems to have the potentioal of making this task easier in that I wouldn't need to extrude them all manually.
But it could also be useful for all sorts of random suface textures. What about draft?
Draft is another operation so it might slow regen down a bit - but should be easy enough.
I didn't include it because this was more of a test of how fast I could write a feature (answer ~7 minutes) based on a request based on another feature.
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Death Star surface generator now available:
Experts in Onshape Automation - Custom Features and Integrated Applications
@Caden_Armstrong Where is this available?
Cool. To bring that death star to life: Wasn't there a FS somewhere out there, to tesselate solids without making them a mesh?
Random Extrude
Link was at the top of the post
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Any plans to allow merging these into one body? (Of course, you'll need to overlap the bodies a bit or do some other magic.)