construction axis through curved/spherical surface

[mbostonsprint]

Well, seeing as it's Answer Day, I thought I would mention one of my most-wanted features, and see if there is any progress or intent.

Having the ability to place a point at the intersection of a construction axis and a curved surface while in Model environment would be immensely useful. I use Point at Edge and Plane a great deal, and analogous capability for point at Edge and Surface (or Sphere, at minimum) would make me very happy.

As it stands now, there is lot of trial and error placing a point precisely on a spherical/curved surface at an intersection point with construction axes.

Is there anything brewing in this regard?

[jeff_strater]

@mbostonsprint,

Thanks for posting this.  "brewing" is a good description of the state of this (or maybe "fermenting" is better...).  I'd personally like to get this one in, but right now it is sitting on the backlog.  The Idea Station item for it is ability-for-a-construction-point-at-the-intersection-of-any.  So far, it only has 7 votes.  So everyone who agrees that this is important, please vote!

Jeff

[HughesTooling]

I have a workaround using sketches and Project to Surface. A couple of points, one you can't project a line end point into the sketch the line is part of and for the vector in Project to Surface make sure you select the axis and not the line in the first sketch.

Screencast demo.

Mark

[mbostonsprint]

Mark, Jeff --

Thanks for the feedback. I also have my own collection of workarounds, involving offset plane intersection trial-and-error, and sometimes having to go into Sketch mode, depending on context, but making it a one-step operation instead of a half-hour of messing around would be great.

Mark, I'll check your thing out in detail. Maybe something there to add to my arsenal...Thanks --