IMPORTING DXF OF AIRFOIL SHAPE
dan_cummins
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I am trying to import the top half of an airfoil profile into a Parts Studio sketch. I save the top of the airfoil as a polyline and/or a spline in another CAD program as a DXF or DWG.
When I go to import the DXF into ONSHAPE, and import it into a sketch, it imports as a series of line segments not a single entity......ie I cannot just make the one end coincident with a point or another vertex....if I do that, only the point I selected becomes coincident, and the rest of the points stay exactly where they landed when I imported the dxf. So what I am really asking, is how do I treat the imported DXF as an single entity (like a poly line) that can be constrained?
I could trace a spline over the imported points, and delete the original import, but that seems its more complicated than it needs to be.
This seems like it should be simple, but I am stuck.
Your thoughts?
DC
When I go to import the DXF into ONSHAPE, and import it into a sketch, it imports as a series of line segments not a single entity......ie I cannot just make the one end coincident with a point or another vertex....if I do that, only the point I selected becomes coincident, and the rest of the points stay exactly where they landed when I imported the dxf. So what I am really asking, is how do I treat the imported DXF as an single entity (like a poly line) that can be constrained?
I could trace a spline over the imported points, and delete the original import, but that seems its more complicated than it needs to be.
This seems like it should be simple, but I am stuck.
Your thoughts?
DC
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Hi @dan_cummins - Onshape does not have a polyline sketch entity so will always treat an imported polyline as lines with no constraints. Did you try creating your profile as a spline and then exporting as a spline to DXF?Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA0
