Extrude, Loft or Sweep multiple Faces to Multiple Endpoints

Extrude, Loft or Sweep multiple Faces to Multiple Endpoints

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Extrude, Loft or Sweep multiple Faces to Multiple Endpoints

Anonymous
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Hello,

 

I am looking for help with how to design something, and my brain isn't quite ticking the boxes.

 

I have a series of 6 pipes coming from a holder and I want to extrude each of these along a unique path until it hits a given point on a surface.  The pipes come out of a holder in one plane, See 6FibreHolder v8.png, and are to be bent around and gathered in a pattern I've laid out, see construction lines/points in 6FibreHolder v8-2.png.

 

The context is the real device has 3D printed holders and the long pipes are plastic fibre optic cables - which in the real set up are bunched together into a circle packing.  I am looking to draw that leading and bunching of the fibres.

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

Euan

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TheCADWhisperer
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File>Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here.

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Anonymous
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Attached.

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laughingcreek
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If your just trying to make it LOOK decent, then you can just loft the profiles together.  tangent for the end of the fiber, and directional for the sketch profile.

fiber.png

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wmhazzard
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Use a loft with guide rails or simple lofts if they don't need to be exactly like the real world. 

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MoshiurRashid
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Try sweep command with guided rail. See what happens

Moshiur Rashid
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