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Best way to create a workplane at a angle on tube surface?
Best way to create a workplane at a angle on tube surface?
Help a poor programmer again!
What is the best way to create a workplane at a given angle on the surface of the tube. Imagine the workplane long and thin running along the surface of the tube. The angle will be a parameter (from a sketch or user).
I'd like the workplane to always be on the surface of the tube, even when the diameter of the tube (from a dimension in a sketch) changes.
I'm thinking that a (angled) line in the same sketch as the two circles (which define the tube diameter and thickness) would be a good starting point, but I'm open to better suggestions from more experienced Inventor users...
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I would use the sketch method aswell, drawings a construction line from he centre of the circle to the circumference of the circle. Then create a plane that is perpenicular to the construction line (select line) and placed at the end of the line (select end of line).
Yes, I've done something similar. I made a sketchpoint be an intersection between the line and the circle, then used workplane tangent to surface through point.
"Make the diameter of the tube a parameter also and use that for the offset of the plane."
Is this more or less preferable to having a point at the intersection of a the line and circle? That way the point position is driven by the two entities directly (circle diameter and line angle) rather than an offset.
JDMather, thanks for the reply.I can't see an attachment though...
My request was for YOU to attach a file here that exhibits the issue you want to solve.
When you respond (on web) you should see Attachments link below the text box.
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