How can I define / create the side sections on this fire pit design.
Frankly, from a CAD modeming perspective you should scratch this design and start over completely from scratch.
In my mechanical designs often containing hundreds to thousands of parts I very rarely use a single Move feature and I used the Scale feature only for a very particular purpose and very, very rarely.
Your work would certainly deserve it!
Edit: I am working on a proper model to show how much less work this can be ...
@scottavidon wrote:
I know you are absolutely correct and I will attempt to remodel the design after fabrication is complete. However, I still won't know how to figure out the dimensions of the left and right side sheet metal pieces. Do you have any suggestions? Tutorials, etc. Anything will be appreciated. Scott
I'll have a model with those side pieces you are asking for sometime today 😉
I had started directly wit a sheet metal design, but then decided to approach this differently.
I looked at your forum profile and your website wasn't too far away either.
In my experience, the first thing you are interested in is not the functional end result, but you want to define the shape and proportions, the volume.
So that's what I've done with just 2 sketches and two extrusions. Once you have that overall shape in the right dimensions, we can use Sheet metal components to move forward. This is a much more intuitive and also much faster way to get to the end result.
We use these sketches to design to the correct dimensions, so no scaling is needed.
We take advantage of symmetries, and only sketch half of the full profile and then mirror about the origin planes.
Attached is what I have so far. I'll keep developing this ...
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