How do I create a pattern of extrusions between a series of points along 2 curves?

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• john_hackington Member Posts: 43 ✭✭

  June 2018

  Hi Bob! 
  
  This is a very interesting problem you have here. If possible, you might like to post this as a question in the "Community Support" category where it will likely get more readily answered. I'm interested to find out too.
  
  @neobobkrause
  
  

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• konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 2018

  john_hackington said:

  Hi Bob! 
  
  This is a very interesting problem you have here. If possible, you might like to post this as a question in the "Community Support" category where it will likely get more readily answered. I'm interested to find out too.
  

  not actually a big problem, just needed a feature that would place points along a path. @mahir had some plans to make one with more options than mine
  

  https://cad.onshape.com/documents/24d450db10d7bd8a5642da38/w/83ada25ced2e1aacb278f760/e/6deea515b9f0a07736eb74d2
  

  
  

  
  

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• neobobkrause Member Posts: 105 EDU

  June 2018 edited June 2018

  konstantin_shiriazdanov said:

  just needed a feature that would place points along a path. 

  
  konstantin_shiriazdanov It feels a bit like somebody just peeled back the matrix to demonstrate how the world really works.
  
  The solution you've presented places points along the paths -- but does so in the context of a feature pattern. Your parameter pattern script accomplishes that quite simply by "hijacking" a user-defined variable and causing its value to vary for each instance of a pattern. That's an insightful construct realized in an impressively simple piece of code.
  
  I've always thought of OS as a static declarative system where nothing changes once set. Your code demonstrates that the value of a user-defined variable can change in the context of a feature pattern -- much like a 'for' loop in a procedural language. Whoa. If a for loop is possible, then so are if/then/else constructs and nested code blocks. This changes how I design in OnShape pretty fundamentally.
  
  Thanks for your help and insight.
  
  - Bob

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• konstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 2018

  neobobkrause said:

  This changes how I design in OnShape pretty fundamentally.
  

  I had the same feelings when found that feature pattern takes into account external variables when regenerates features. This makes feature-based modeling more like graphic programming. FS developers done a great job to pack such an advanced functionality into one little function
  

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