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Radial Extrude

3D
3D Posts: 52 ✭✭
in Community Support
How soon are you likely to introduce a radial extrude function?

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  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Posts: 2,148 PRO
    What's a Radial Extrude?
    Engineer ı Product Designer ı Onshape Consulting Partner
    Twitter: @onshapetricks  & @babart1977   
  • øyvind_kaurstad
    øyvind_kaurstad Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    Who knows, but a wild guess might be that he means something similar to what you can achieve by thickening a surface. For instance, thickening a circular surface could perhaps be thought of as a radial extrude.
  • DriesV
    DriesV Posts: 43 ✭✭
    Revolve? :)
    Product Specialist at Luxion (makers of KeyShot)
    www.keyshot.com
  • øyvind_kaurstad
    øyvind_kaurstad Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    That would be a tangential extrude, wouldn't it? B)
  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Posts: 2,148 PRO
    A wrap function to put text/sketches onto the outside cylindrical surface of a ring would be cool. Maybe this is what he means?

    Engineer ı Product Designer ı Onshape Consulting Partner
    Twitter: @onshapetricks  & @babart1977   
  • ben_ward
    ben_ward Posts: 2 ✭
    brucebartlett said:
    A wrap function to put text/sketches onto the outside cylindrical surface of a ring would be cool. Maybe this is what he means?

    that is exactly what I want to do today... I guess I don't currently have that option? Any easy workarounds?
  • 3D
    3D Posts: 52 ✭✭
    Wanted to put a flange on the end of tube. To do this, thicken would work, but the ability to do it off the face rather than having to extend the extrude first would be a lot easier - will see what they come out with when they release Sheet Metal Features...
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Posts: 6,097 image
    @justin_walker a radial extrude like you describe is unlikely to be implemented (but you never know) because it is a niche application - this is where FeatureScript comes in. Adding a flange on the end of a tube would be simple for someone with a little coding knowledge.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • Jason_S
    Jason_S Posts: 225 image
    @3D,

    I think you should take a look at our direct editing features. It sounds like what you're looking for can be achieved by Move face by an offset distance:




    Good luck,

    Jason
    Support & QA
  • 3D
    3D Posts: 52 ✭✭
    I realise move face / thicken can achieve similar results - however  to create a flange on the end of a tube, you would have to extrude "New" the thickness you wanted the flange, creating another part effectively, then thicken / move face and then boolean after to unify the component. 

    Any other simpler method been overlooked?
  • mahir
    mahir Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    I would go with sketching the flange and extruding it. It's more flexible and requires only 2 features vs 3 (1 sketch & 1 extrude vs 1 extrude, 1 move face, 1 boolean). A single sketch and extrude doesn't seem like much effort, but I suppose it would add up if this was something you had to do a lot of. If that's the case, I'd look into FeatureScript. This is the type of thing that could easily be automated. In fact, if you're not in a rush I could probably tinker a bit and create a FeatureScript for you.
  • Jason_S
    Jason_S Posts: 225 image
    edited July 2016
    You could create an Offset plane, apply a Split face to the outside face, then a Move face would have the same result.




    Either way you need some way to constrain what area you are looking to effect.

    Best,

    Jason
    Support & QA
  • mahir
    mahir Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Here you go. I think it does pretty much what you wanted.

    FeatureScript Edge Flange


  • noa
    noa Posts: 141 image
    Very nice @mahir_abrahim! It seems very robust too.

    Noa Flaherty / Customer Success / Onshape Inc.
  • lemon1324
    lemon1324 Posts: 230 EDU
    @mahir_abrahim did you delete that document? I wanted to take a look but Onshape thinks it's in the trash.
    Arul Suresh
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • mahir
    mahir Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    I was asked to clean the file for inclusion into OS' FS collection (or something like that). So I copied my workspace to get rid of extra versions. Here's a link to the new workspace.

    FeatureScript End Flange
  • lemon1324
    lemon1324 Posts: 230 EDU
    Ah, thanks, the name change ("edge flange" -> "end flange") threw me off.
    Arul Suresh
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • mahir
    mahir Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oops. Sorry about that. It was always Edge Flange, but for some reason I typed it wrong in my earlier post.
  • 3D
    3D Posts: 52 ✭✭
    edited July 2016
    If you're still keen to modify it more, you could consider the ability to:
    Set Flange thickness equal to original material thickness
    Radius / fillet: (Internal Edge = Material thickness & External Edge = Thickness (+ Radius (if internal corner has been filleted)

    Anyway, thanks, great job.

  • mahir
    mahir Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Getting the material thickness is more work than it's worth, but I could probably make it so that the thickness and offset are remembered from the last time. That would make it easier to add same size flanges to same size extrusions. 
  • 3D
    3D Posts: 52 ✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Material thickness is easy enough to set with variables, but the others would be very useful.

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