Pattern along a compound curve.
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
@domad
I give up. How did you get the extrude directions to be a 45 degree rotation around the path? Python or a Gui tool?
I give up. How did you get the extrude directions to be a 45 degree rotation around the path? Python or a Gui tool?
Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
using lattice wb.
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
Hi @edwilliams16, hello to the Community!edwilliams16 wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 6:23 pm @domad
I give up. How did you get the extrude directions to be a 45 degree rotation around the path? Python or a Gui tool?
No, I didn't use "Python", nor "Lattice" but a very, very simple flow, sorry but now I can't produce an animated gif to show the simplicity of the process, but surely tomorrow I will show how.
Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
Hi @edwilliams16, hello to the Community!
As promised, the animated gif shows the flow (always improveable and adaptable to other wbs) to create, without any automated support, using only the basic functions/tools of the "Draft" + "Part" wbs, a series of holes, along a path, inclined and orthogonally intersecting the solid generated by the sweep.
To show the technique used, only the first three holes have been used to prevent the animated gif from exceeding 1 Mb in "weight".
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
I am trying to apply a similar concept from earlier to create a different pattern on holes along a different curve. The problem I am having now is that unlike with the earlier demo from @edwilliams16, the holes do not begin at the initial profile for the revolution and spread outwards, so I am unsure as to how I can position the holes in the arrangement shown below: .
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
So I've had some thoughts on how to do this. Is there any way I can skip the first instance of the polar pattern? cause then I can still use the center profile and just skip the first hole. If this doesn't exist, Since there is no polar pattern for sketches in the part design wb, would I have to use the draft wb to polar pattern the actual individual sketch holes rather than the pockets?
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
It's hard to think of ways staying in Part Design. One possibility is modeling half and mirroring at the end. It's likely possible (but not easy to figure out) to use the Lattice2 WB. https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2/wi ... n-Tutorial
Easiest I could come up with is to make a draft polar array of cutting cylinders, then use a Part Compound filter to exclude the center one and do a Part Cut. Probably, with some effort that could made parametric using expressions.
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Easiest I could come up with is to make a draft polar array of cutting cylinders, then use a Part Compound filter to exclude the center one and do a Part Cut. Probably, with some effort that could made parametric using expressions.
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
another variation using lattice2_wb and project
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
keshmaster81,you might check out this old post.
viewtopic.php?p=301039&hilit=cowl#p300813
viewtopic.php?p=301039&hilit=cowl#p300813
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Re: Pattern along a compound curve.
Thank you all for the help. I've been experimenting and exploring how I can achieve this but as a new freecad user I am finding it difficult to follow and replicate the steps from different workbenches such as Lattice2 and Part wb. The last suggestion from @freedman feels the most intuitive and practical to me given my knowledge level. I am looking for some help on how I can implement that workflow concept, by attaching datum planes to temporary angled shapes. The main problem again comes from being able to create this type of feature on a compound curved surface. Any advice and help is appreciated, thanks.
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