Measure Sketch Curve and Divide into Equal Segments

[Anonymous]

 Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to measure and divide a sketched curve into equal segments. It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but I can't seem to figure it out. Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks!

[Phil.E]

Hi,

Is your "curve" a straight line, spline, or arc?

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

It's an arc

[PhilProcarioJr]

@Anonymous

Select your curve and then -> inspect -> measure, that will give you the length of the curve.

One way you can figure out locations on your curve is to use the plane along path.

Construct -> Plane along path This tool sets the beginning of the path to 0 and the end to 1.

So if you need to divide the path into 8 segments you divide 1 by 8 which gives you 0.125.

So your first plane will be 0.125 second will be 0.25 and so on...

It would be nice to have a tool that did this automatically but to my knowledge there isn't.

I can make a screen cast if you need it.

For the arc just draw lines from the center at the degrees needed to divide the arc. If you use the method above you don't need to figure much out.

[Phil.E]

Hi,

Thanks Phil for that workflow.

IMO, any arc divided into equal segments is best divided by angle. The length of segment is irrelevant when dividing equally. I suppose you could always just do some trigonometry if you are that particular about the arc length. 🙂

I divide arcs into equal segments by angle, using parameters.

[PhilProcarioJr]

@Phil.E

When I posted what I did I figured he had a complex curve (spline) and not a simple arc. 

He posted while I was posting..lol

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I will try this solution out tonight.

Owain

[HughesTooling]

@Phil.E I got to ask, why is there no pattern on path in sketch mode, odd it's only available on the create menu for copying features.

Mark.

[Phil.E]

@HughesTooling

There must be some technical limitation in the sketch solver, but not the model solver. Is it on the Idea Station yet?