New beta version Dogbone add-in
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For anyone interested, I've created what I consider to be an enhanced version of Casey Rogers and Patrick Rainsberry and David Liu's dogbone fillet add-in.
It should be more robust and quicker than the original and it's completely parametric. That is, you can go into the parameter dialog and change the hole diameter, plus you can change underlying model and the dogbones will follow suit.
I'm not going to include installation instructions - the add-in may or may not be suitable for the general public yet, so if you don't know how to install, this probably isn't for you.
Once installed and running:
- Open the add-in.
- Simply click on the face where you want the dogbones to drop down from, (if the face is not contiguous over the whole panel, you'll get areas without dogbones.)
- then click OK
Selecting multiple faces, may or may not work - I'll work on this for future releases
There are still one or two issues:
- I believe there's a bug in F360 API in taking care of creating holes in Occurrences, so I have a work around, but it will not yet work for components created as a mirror. No one at F360 team has responded to me (yet)
- I'm not sure how well the selection will work for multiple faces. Selecting different occurrences of the same component hasn't been handled yet, so may result in an error.
For most simple to moderately complicated situations, this add-in should work. There will be situations that will result in error messages - take a screenshot and post them on this forum, and I'll try to deal with it.
I'm releasing this as a Beta and I'm looking for someone (or more) to help test and I'm very open to collaborating with anyone interested.
The add-in can be found on github - here
Any and all feedback/comments are welcome. If this has more issues than I expect in the wild, I'll probably get embarrassed and pull the add-in, but we'll see - I'm optimistic.
Regards
Peter Ludikar
Life long R&D Engineer (retired after 30+ years in Military Communications, Aerospace Robotics and Transport Automation).