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Boolean Intersection of Surface Extrusions (Curved)
emil_4
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Dear Onshape Developers,
Any chance of adding capability of doing boolean intersection of surface extrusions (results in a curved line)? Boolean intersections only seem to work with parts.
Any chance of adding capability of doing boolean intersection of surface extrusions (results in a curved line)? Boolean intersections only seem to work with parts.
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also another highly desirable capability: Cut with surface
("extrude cut from surface" would be a workaround, once you get round to adding a "from" condition, as well as a "to" condition, to extrudes ... but it would require creating a sketch, and probably a plane)
@Andrew_Troup, can you elaborate a bit more on your 'cut with surface' request? While our surface generation tools aren't very mature yet, we do allow you to split parts using surfaces. Is that similar to what you're asking for?
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OK, I can split using my surface, and then delete one of the sub-parts. Thanks a bunch!
That's a pretty satisfactory workaround. It might be even better (and eliminate the need for a "Cut with Surface" tool altogether) if I could choose which parts to keep, to simplify the feature tree. I wonder if there is merit in OnS automatically renaming features when a 'versatile' tool is used in different ways? So that "Split Part" might become "Cut Part" if only one component was kept, and "Split/Cut part" if not all components were kept.
This might seem a lot of trouble to go to, but in the case of Split Part, there is currently no visual indication, when using rollback, that anything has happened. Perhaps new colours could be allocated to newly created parts?
Solidworks went part way there with the "Offset Surface" tool; if you specified zero, the Title bar description would change to "Copy Surface" (but, perplexingly, the FM tree description did not!)
Particularly if the OnS tree remains purely textual, it seems to me the default descriptions need to be enriched. At present I cannot tell from the tree whether Extrude 1 is a solid, or a surface, or a cut-extrude, or an intersection, or some combination.
Personally my preference would be for that information to be captured with a combination of text and other cues: it's simply too slow and klunky to have to read each line in order to orient yourself to the tree, even before you start to extract meaning from it.
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It takes parts, surfaces or faces as input.
If you input two surfaces with intersection selected it will generate a curve
IR for AS/NZS 1100
We need good knit and unknit tools. If you have trimmed surfaces, you have to use enclose to knit which is way more than it should be.
This said, it takes a little work, but you can get surfaces to work.
It sets allowSheets to true and eraseImprintedEdges to false for a surface intersection.
It doesn't work if it should create two curves (see https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9239/opboolean-on-surface-bodies)
IR for AS/NZS 1100