Hi everyone. I'm trying to find a faster way to create plate shapes that are rolled in 2 directions. All I have to work with are a series of splines.
Below is the geometry I have to work with. Each line should end up as a FB5x1/4 or similar.
Is there any way to allow a curved profile to a Spline? Curved profiles only seem to allow Plines.
Sure I could do it no problem using regular ACAD type commands but then that defeats the purpose of ASD.
Lots of views but no feedback?
I worked out an ugly way to get it done. But it's time consuming. It will however be less time than creating regular solids and detailing them all manually.
1. I created a new profile. I really needed a 3/16 plate because these parts will all be nested and laser cut out of sheet. But I cannot see a way to do curved plates other than bending with a given radius. I'm dealing with SPlines. There are many radaii and this would take forever. So I created the new profile as a FB120x.187. After flattening the SPlines in 2 directions I apply a bent profile to the elevation flattened splines which are now Plines...
A seperate issue comes up that I cannot see the insertion point what side it's on.
Here is the curved profile...
Now to cut it in plan to match the other curves. I take a Pline from my other flattened SPlines and move it over to the part. 1st I extend the Pline past the part a little bit or funny things happen..
I then offset the line the 5" I need since the lines represent the front of the curve geometry...
Then I use the cut by pline command but the cut looks like crap...
I cannot accept this. 😞
Seems to be something with the control points I think. The flattening killed the resolution accuracy?
I traced the pline with a SPline.. then discarded the original pline. Then ran Pedit on it and converted it to Pline when it asked. I used a precision of 30 when it asked...
Now I have a very nice smooth cut...
I now have what appears to be a "rolled in 2 directions" PL3/16x5. I will however have to hack up my BOM to reflect plate material.
There it is inserted into position...
I still have some issues however you can see here..
Mark