Create equal spaced points along a spline

Cobalt_Echo · January 2022

After a spline in created, is there a way to project or pattern points along a (2D) spline?

I've attached an example (that I did manually on the right spline), but a way to do this effeciently would be awsome.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/19fe70b9f60fcc2a8750c0cf/w/1b6f2c28ffbce1faacfc4a60/e/3050fd217ea8f0bdd9ea1ba9

S1mon · January 2022

There's a Featurescript which can place points along a spline with various parameters. Depending on how you want to measure things, it might work for you.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/576d1e60c6cb90985345ac37/w/af3cd9578e1e4516cefd7159/e/cda3fea9f8e5c39ee94e206f

Cobalt_Echo · January 2022

S1mon said:

There's a Featurescript which can place points along a spline with various parameters. Depending on how you want to measure things, it might work for you.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/576d1e60c6cb90985345ac37/w/af3cd9578e1e4516cefd7159/e/cda3fea9f8e5c39ee94e206f

Close, but not quite. This does make points measured along the spline, but I would like the points measure only the x, y, or z axis, and then placed on the spline (like an intersection almost). Not sure if that makes sense.

I'm having a hard time putting it into words, so I've made a picture. Hopefully this helps.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/4j/cuobdctpzsi0.png

S1mon · January 2022

I understood what you are looking for. Somehow I thought that was an option of that FeatureScript. I suspect that someone with decent FeatureScript experience could use that one as a basis to modify or expand on that one to solve your need. It would be a useful tool in general, especially if patterning was built in or easily done with a feature pattern.

Cobalt_Echo · January 2022

Cool, I'll post in the Feature Script area and see if I get a hit. Thanks!

christian_petty · January 2022

Is this a feature in other CAD packages?

Create equal spaced points along a spline

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