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Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
I'm not one of the devs at Onshape but I've bullied their sheet metal kernel enough to make some educated guesses how things work under the hood. The main barrier to lofted sheet metal is guaranteeing that the seed surfaces defining the sheet metal bodies are developable and zero gaussian curvature underneath. Cylinders… -
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
As for the demo shown in that tech tip, the piecewise segmented loft approach has its own limitations for faceting. I've attempted to modify another version of someone's custom faceted loft script but that approach can fail in cases where the segments of curves on one side of the loft can't be aligned with like segments on…
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