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Duplicate and rotate a sketch / sketch entity normal to the sketch plane?
tom_auger
Member Posts: 116 ✭✭
Here I go asking questions again that are probably complete bass-ackwards, but you folk have been so helpful and quick to respond that I keep coming back for more help! (So, thank you in advance!)
This wedge-shaped item above is a Loft of two triangular faces, one at 90 degrees to the other, normal to the surface of the original sketch plane. You can see the two sketches below:
I create this by simply creating a new plane that was perpendicular to the first sketch plane and then re-drawing my shape, using the same dimensions that I recorded from the previous shape. However, they are not "linked" in the sense that the dimensions (ie: the length of the triangle from the tip to the base) of the first shape do not "drive" those of the second shape.
Is there another way I could have approached this using a rotation or patterning approach? Can you duplicate and rotate an entire sketch's plane after the fact?
Alternatively, there might have been a completely different modeling approach that might have yielded equivalent results. I rtried extrude + draft, but that made the back face draft as well so I didn't get the same resulting shape.
Thanks and be safe my virtual friends.
Tom from Toronto
This wedge-shaped item above is a Loft of two triangular faces, one at 90 degrees to the other, normal to the surface of the original sketch plane. You can see the two sketches below:
I create this by simply creating a new plane that was perpendicular to the first sketch plane and then re-drawing my shape, using the same dimensions that I recorded from the previous shape. However, they are not "linked" in the sense that the dimensions (ie: the length of the triangle from the tip to the base) of the first shape do not "drive" those of the second shape.
Is there another way I could have approached this using a rotation or patterning approach? Can you duplicate and rotate an entire sketch's plane after the fact?
Alternatively, there might have been a completely different modeling approach that might have yielded equivalent results. I rtried extrude + draft, but that made the back face draft as well so I didn't get the same resulting shape.
Thanks and be safe my virtual friends.
Tom from Toronto
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NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714 
Create an offset surface of 0mm from the sketch. Then use Move Face / Rotate on the offset surface. Then loft between the two.Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI5
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Worked a bloody charm. Cheers!