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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a2579ea69458709b3a099ede/w/196e9edd929c241311ef4d0e/e/479455d4cf0914d9d83749ff
And it's my birthday in 3 days! Best CAD-present everrrr.
also super sweep seems sweet! something to play around with!
Thank you OS team!
But it is always a mess for me to find a FeatureScript. They are mixed in numerous public FS and I don't find the good way to sort the good ones. In fact they are even mixed with a lot of copies included in various other Documents, and I don't find the original ones with potential pdf explanations.
For example "Approximate Spline" was not found, or another script;
"Super Sweep" not found;
"Parametric Curve" found but without the "Approximate" option.
--> Is there a way to find the most official FeatureScripts? Are the ones cited here all easy to find somewhere?
Thanks for your help
These are some serious improvements. I use lots of software and not one of them gives quality improvements like you guys do.
Thanks Onshape team!
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You can ignore it if you need to work quick, otherwise upgrade now, then it will kick you out while it updates, usually 5minutes or so, then you can go back into the document
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@venkatramana_reddy Simon is correct -- you can use the first and second derivative options to match curvature/tangency to a surface. Note that we do automatic rescaling, so you can provide a normalized tangent direction as the first derivative and an orthogonal vector whose length is the curvature (in 1/m) as the second derivative.
@S1mon The endpoints and derivatives are treated as hard constraints (except for periodic fits). Under the hood for approximateSpline, we do sort of the "expected" thing -- compute assumed parameters for the input points (a future version will allow specifying them, which can sometimes help get a lighter approximation), and then assign knots based on curvature and do a least squares fit. Repeat the knot assignment and fit with more knots until the tolerance is reached.
@nick_papageorge073 @philippe_marin788
The demoed sweep just that -- a demo, nowhere close to handling all the cases that need to be handled for production use.
Parametric curve is owned by @mahir, so it'll use the new code when/if he updates it.
Here are code snippets for the curve approximation and the sweep (my versions, not exactly what Neil used) -- just providing them as examples, deliberately not as custom features: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/03c52c3726286054bcd64637/w/8c75bcf4c9ec344ec6e3fb15/e/f3db28f74d419c5e269d1446
I definitely hear everyone on the "joy" of searching for custom features. We're working on a couple of directions to make this less painful -- stay tuned.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5e7b129d3112105f68f9ed86
There's this polyhedra FeatureScript:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2c40f522f1b5a02f6ce9ce01/w/32e0799ad10a8f40ac24abb5/e/dd23a5b64fbc7cefbf67ffbd
Speaking of Feature Scripts, I discovered a few days ago "Auto Layout" which is really useful for cutting sheet metal objects flat patterns (laser cutter or water jet).
But the question is: would it be possible to export the layout contours in one consistent dxf file?
Please let me know if it opens correctly for you! I'm still pretty new to sharing clips from YouTube.
The other way I found was to create a new sketch, and project every edge of the relevant faces onto the sketch plane by the function "Use", then export the sketch content as DXF. The tricky thing is to select all edges properly. I feel the path you propose is far more reliable. Thanks.
Nevertheless, extending the "Export as DXF/DWG" function so that it would allow selection of multiple faces would be a great improvement. I asked the developers, and they say they will decide if this is to be developed or not. Don't hesitate to also request so that they understand I'm not the only one waiting for this feature improvement ;-)
A while ago I spent some time trying to construct such fillets between compound curved surfaces and gave up.