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Projected Extrude FeatureScript (V1.1.2)

TimRiceTimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315
edited April 2020 in FeatureScript
Over winter break I had some time to write this new featurescript which returns a part from the intersection of two nonparallel sketches. It is mostly a copy of the Projected curve feature which is already part of our feature set. Thanks to @lana and @Jake_Rosenfeld for the extra help!





Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
Onshape, Inc.

Comments

  • MBartlett21MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,034 EDU
    @TimRice

    Here is a little bug-fix that fixes it not extruding enough:
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b64a82008c08948ab7b4a3e9

    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100
  • TimRiceTimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315
    Thanks, I'll take a look. Did you notice a specific case where it wasn't extruded enough?
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • MBartlett21MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,034 EDU
    Yes: your screenshot
    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100
  • leo_ahrensleo_ahrens Member Posts: 4 EDU
    Tim this is great! Would it be possible to add a quick feature to extrude multiple faces on a single profile at once? Kinda like on the normal extrude feature. 

    Right now I am limited to only being able to select one isolate surface. Any lines cutting through a face separates the extrude not allowing to project the full part. 

    Would be legendary! 
    Thanks,
    Leo
  • TimRiceTimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315
    edited April 2020
    @leo_ahrens
    Thank you for the kind words! I am not sure what you mean though by the workflow you mentioned. Do you have a screenshot of the input geometry?
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • leo_ahrensleo_ahrens Member Posts: 4 EDU
    edited April 2020
    Hey Tim,

    It actually was an incredibly simple fix...

    All I had to do was increase the "MaxNumberOfPicks" so I could Query multiple faces for each profile. It was set to only one pick each. 


    <div>&nbsp;precondition<span>{ 
    </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Flama, sans-serif;">annotation { "Name" : "First profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE, "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 10 }</span></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; definition.profileOne is Query;
    <span>annotation { "Name" : "Second profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE, "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 10 }</span></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; definition.profileTwo is Query;
    <span>}</span></div>
  • MBartlett21MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,034 EDU
    @leo_ahrens

    What would actually be a better solution would be to remove the MaxNumberOfPicks section altogether, allowing unlimited selection for each profile. The resulting precondition will be:
        precondition
        {
            annotation { "Name" : "First profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE }
            definition.profileOne is Query;
            annotation { "Name" : "Second profile", "Filter" : EntityType.FACE && GeometryType.PLANE }
            definition.profileTwo is Query;
        }

    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100
  • TimRiceTimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315
    @leo_ahrens
    Thank you for looking. I actually added the selection limit on purpose to ensure the two profiles are actually not coplanar. With N number of selections this could become more difficult/time consuming to check. I am looking to add support for selections of sketches in addition to faces which should allow multiple faces in a sketch to be selected. I will post here when the new version is ready.
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • bruce_williamsbruce_williams Member, Developers Posts: 842 PRO
    edited April 2020
    @TimRice

    Glad you put this together!  Ironic - my design needed this and I did it with existing tools and then 5 minutes later I saw this thread.  Will be helpful on the next one. Thanks!
    www.accuratepattern.com
  • TimRiceTimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315
    @leo_ahrens

    Just updated to V1.1.2 and added support for multiple planar faces or sketch inputs for both sides. 





    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea472c5bd213ba9124b90061/v/479fe4641dfa0356a0c36b47/e/0a8c561028bca4f5440ebd24 
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • leo_ahrensleo_ahrens Member Posts: 4 EDU
    Awesome! Looks good, thanks.
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