Custom Feature - Random Extrude

Caden_Armstrong · March 12

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?

SmartBench Software

Derek_Van_Allen_BD · March 13

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.

martin_kopplow · March 13

That'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?

Caden_Armstrong · March 13

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/128134#Comment_128134

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.