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Making the front of a Diamond Play Button
charlie_kingsland
Member Posts: 10 EDU
I have a basic shape for a diamond play button, i was just wondering how I would create the raised-ness of the top of the play button... Any ideas? I have the basic lines drawn on a sketch plane, I just do not know how to extrude lines...
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Ah I understand now (I think). This is actually something I've wanted from time to time and would love for it to become part of the loft feature. Good question @charlie_kingsland I don't know a simple way. All I can think is a lot of separate surface lofts, like this. You can get in a groove and use some hotkeys to knock it out fairly quick, but it will be a somewhat fragile model that will break if you try to tweak it much. At least it wouldn't be up to my ideals of stability.
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does this workflow do what you need?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d240295fe07839f9d33d55ff/w/0b89fceb05c86dfd59595482/e/2b7ac33e3faa033aa83b86ba
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That semi-answers it... But is there a way to extrude the lines instead of the points?Evan_Reese said:does this workflow do what you need?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d240295fe07839f9d33d55ff/w/0b89fceb05c86dfd59595482/e/2b7ac33e3faa033aa83b86ba0 -
You can loft to/from points, lines, or closed surfaces/sketches. Your example looks like it could be done in about 4 or 5 lofts.0
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I can't seem to loft to a line on a different sketch that is 5mm above the face of the flat diamond play button, however, I can loft to a point on that separate sketch?mahir said:You can loft to/from points, lines, or closes surfaces/sketches. Your example looks like it could be done in about 4 or 5 lofts.0 -
I guess I don't understand the ask then. It's always tough for me to get what people mean just from a description. If you'll create the features you're trying to create, and leave them in a failed state, and share the doc, I can take a look.0
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In this document (https://cad.onshape.com/documents/477e1f0a606da3bb9b2ca20c/w/131dbe38e3f65668afb3d8e5/e/9205b86f309e2c457916d23c), there is a folder called 'red diamond', inside that is v1 & v2. 'v1 > diamond' is what I have tried already, and 'v2 > red dimond' is me trying to loft up to a lineEvan_Reese said:I guess I don't understand the ask then. It's always tough for me to get what people mean just from a description. If you'll create the features you're trying to create, and leave them in a failed state, and share the doc, I can take a look.
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Is this close to what you're looking for?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdfaae4b005c413ed9b6f/w/3fd585a46d3af1b3ba413c53/e/db2257daeec52e4619ef2cc4
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Once again, that is kind of what i'm looking for, but i would like to loft up to a line, not a point...mahir said:Is this close to what you're looking for?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdfaae4b005c413ed9b6f/w/3fd585a46d3af1b3ba413c53/e/db2257daeec52e4619ef2cc40 -
I think I may have misspoken earlier. I did try lofting to a line, but it seems that this is only possible when creating a surface vs a solid. You can loft from line to point (2D surface), surface to point (3D volume), or line to line (2D surface), but you can't loft from surface to line ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .charlie_kingsland said:
Once again, that is kind of what i'm looking for, but i would like to loft up to a line, not a point...
You can get around this for simpler surfaces by just compiling a bunch of 2D surface lofts and then creating a solid from the closed surfaces (kind of like a tent).0 -
@ilya_baran or @kevin_o_toole_1, is this a known limitation of loft? I don't see an inherent reason why I shouldn't be able to loft from a region (sketch or 2D surface) to a line/edge, but I can't get it to work.0
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@mahir Yes, a solid loft profile is either a surface or a point. I can imagine workarounds that involve doing surface lofts and splitting closed curves into open curves. I don't know off the top of my head how hard that limitation would be to address on our side.Ilya Baran \ VP, Architecture and FeatureScript \ Onshape Inc0
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Ah I understand now (I think). This is actually something I've wanted from time to time and would love for it to become part of the loft feature. Good question @charlie_kingsland I don't know a simple way. All I can think is a lot of separate surface lofts, like this. You can get in a groove and use some hotkeys to knock it out fairly quick, but it will be a somewhat fragile model that will break if you try to tweak it much. At least it wouldn't be up to my ideals of stability.
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also printed it!Evan_Reese said:glad to hear it!
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