it's just a guess, because nothing has appeared in a long time, will change my post
Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
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Re: Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
Re: Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
That is really very neat!
Thank you - will help me a lot in future designs
Re: Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
Took me some time to find a question in your essay
(and still not entirely sure what the question is)
but there is no need at all for curves workbench, in fact I have never used it to create my piping - I do everything in Part Design workbench.
Re: Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
Thank you for all the "help " Also thanks for moving the post to the relevant section , I wasn't sure where to post
unfortunately, not much of "the help" was of much use but thanks anyway
I did manage, after a very long time, to figure it out
As the "sweep" is complicated using methods , such as box outlines , draft , just wasn't happening ,, Curves allowed a top and side view to be drawn accurately and was relatively simple to use
body , sketch top , sketch side,, sketch diameter ... curves wb , select lower sketch on the tree first ( I don't know but if I selected top one first I got an error message saying "please select a part" ) then hit the mixed curves button ( yellow flag looking one )
Part design wb , move tube dia to start of "mixed curves " wire , highlight dia sketch , sweep , select edge , click changes to pink when selected , tube appears brown , complete the sweep click ok
However if something was amiss , for example in the sketches, if the changes in direction were not smooth , ie,a fillet wasn't used , then the sweep went hay wire
Also getting the dia sketch to the "start point " and at right angles to the wire ,,, was a bit hit and miss ,, Im not sure of the method "how to" I tried draft wb but got the error message "read-only "
finally as for using " real thunder" I just use the appimage , in ubuntu you just download and click ok ,, but that want the question I posed nor part of the solution
Tm glad I finally was able to finish this drawing and would be happy to show anyone else how I arrived at the result
Kind regards
Stephen
unfortunately, not much of "the help" was of much use but thanks anyway
I did manage, after a very long time, to figure it out
As the "sweep" is complicated using methods , such as box outlines , draft , just wasn't happening ,, Curves allowed a top and side view to be drawn accurately and was relatively simple to use
body , sketch top , sketch side,, sketch diameter ... curves wb , select lower sketch on the tree first ( I don't know but if I selected top one first I got an error message saying "please select a part" ) then hit the mixed curves button ( yellow flag looking one )
Part design wb , move tube dia to start of "mixed curves " wire , highlight dia sketch , sweep , select edge , click changes to pink when selected , tube appears brown , complete the sweep click ok
However if something was amiss , for example in the sketches, if the changes in direction were not smooth , ie,a fillet wasn't used , then the sweep went hay wire
Also getting the dia sketch to the "start point " and at right angles to the wire ,,, was a bit hit and miss ,, Im not sure of the method "how to" I tried draft wb but got the error message "read-only "
finally as for using " real thunder" I just use the appimage , in ubuntu you just download and click ok ,, but that want the question I posed nor part of the solution
Tm glad I finally was able to finish this drawing and would be happy to show anyone else how I arrived at the result
Kind regards
Stephen
Re: Drawing a tube using " curves wb"
Thank you , this was helpful and yes I also had to add the "fillet" and fully constrain both drawings ( however it "sometimes worked without constraining hence the screenshot , but for safety sake I fully constrained ) ... Once again thank you for your inputSyres wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:53 am Fortunately from your screenshot I noticed you were using @realthunder's LinkDaily branch and I have a fairly recent compiled version of it to test.
As I'm not a PartDesign user I completed the sweep using the Part Wb and it passed the Geometry check but I did need to fully constrain your top view sketch and put a fillet part way down the 'main kink' to stop an error I've not seen before. There are so many differences between LinkDaily and master now that it's starting to feel like a different product when applying the same techniques but that might be just me.
OS: Linux Mint 19.3 (X-Cinnamon/cinnamon)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.28581 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: LinkDaily
Hash: 556c87868ea46796242156e9f73eae98259794b7
Python version: 3.6.9
Qt version: 5.9.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/UnitedKingdom (en_GB)
Stephen