I am making the most complex part I have made to date. It is a stake that will hold my landscape lighting into the ground.
The part is basically a cone with wings on 4 sides that taper from the top to the bottom.
This is what it looks like.
The 4 wings are made from triangular sketches on a datum plane the pan'd to 4mm.
From the top down it looks like this.
If both wings are pan'd to 4mm then one side is shown wrong.
and a better view
If the wings have different pan heights it looks great in freecad.
If I export the bad looking version and view it in a slicer it is in fact correct. I can show an image of that.
The FCStd file is too big to include here, is there an alternative place for it if it is needed.
What I want to know is, did I do something wrong to get this error.
Problem with padding
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- Shalmeneser
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Re: Problem with padding
No file no answer !
You can show the construction tree for idea.
You can suppress the features and keep the sketches for a smaller file.
What is the size ?
How is it possible ?The FCStd file is too big to include here, is there an alternative place for it if it is needed.
You can show the construction tree for idea.
You can suppress the features and keep the sketches for a smaller file.
What is the size ?
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Re: Problem with padding
Thanks, I do have to learn to be able to reduce the size of the files.
I just changed the order of how I put the part together, did the wings before the lattice attachment and it now looks correct.
I just changed the order of how I put the part together, did the wings before the lattice attachment and it now looks correct.
Re: Problem with padding
Hello,
here is a potential solution to your issue.
The different objects have not been fused together so you may edit the different properties to suit your
design requirements.
frcaduser
here is a potential solution to your issue.
The different objects have not been fused together so you may edit the different properties to suit your
design requirements.
frcaduser
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Re: Problem with padding
You could think if padding the sketch on two lengths of "half total length" so the pad is around an origin, and simply rotate each wing of the correct amount, this way you could even make five, or six of them.
ang_rot = 360 / n_sides will determine the amount of rotation.
You could use a spreadsheet to hold data and make calculations if you want.
You coukd use expressions to add this rotation to the preceding objects, or other ways like using lattice WB or similar extensions,
It is all about planning things.
Kind Regards
Carlo D.
ang_rot = 360 / n_sides will determine the amount of rotation.
You could use a spreadsheet to hold data and make calculations if you want.
You coukd use expressions to add this rotation to the preceding objects, or other ways like using lattice WB or similar extensions,
It is all about planning things.
Kind Regards
Carlo D.
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