Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
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Hi
I did not find any answer here.
I want that circular extrude to follow the curve of that sweep. Now the extrude is just perpendicular to the curvature:


I want the extrude shape to follow the curve. How do I do?
I did not find any answer here.
I want that circular extrude to follow the curve of that sweep. Now the extrude is just perpendicular to the curvature:


I want the extrude shape to follow the curve. How do I do?





RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
Haven´t found any solution myself yet, I tried the in the pattern/curve "Follow surface shape" command. But got the error message when I marked the surface below in the picture: Area cannot be filled. The sketched area may be too small, or some parameters may be inappropriate.
Any clue?
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
Okey, really wierd.
Here is the pictures that illustrates my problem. Thanks in advance
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RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
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RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
Okey, that´s a way, thx.
But it really bugging me that I won´t works with the pattern/curve (follow surface shape). Nothing happens when I tries to select the surface that I want the disk´s to follow and I get that error message on picture(bar3) when I close down the pattern tool.
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
Patterning an extrusion that has planar faces will always produce planar geometry in the child features (it wont follow the curve). The curve pattern as with other patterns copies the feature about its centre.
RE: Pro e - Pattern a extrude along curve(picture)
I saw the pictures with no problems. Gooogle and a number of other providers have problems with uptime.
You can create an offset surface above or above and below the original reference surface you want to follow. Then use them as upto references in direction 1 and direction 2. I tried it as a regular and sheetmetal (conversion) part and it worked out just fine.
Of course I used a point on curve and axis tangent to curve to create the Datum Plane for Extrude Sketch of the cylindrical shape and was able to do the pattern as a Reference Pattern on versions of Wildfire before the Follow Surface direction option was implemented.
By using the upto surface option, the extrude's start and end face can be above or below the datum reference.
PAT_follow-srf1_ref-setup.PNG
PAT_follow-srf2_extrude-dep-upto.PNG
PAT_follow-srf3_extrude-dep--result.PNG
PAT_follow-srf4_ref-pat_result.PNG
By using a reference pattern and the setup datums for the extrude or internal sketch feature. You can achieve a better result from follow surface as I have seen so far. I do want to see if we can get the follow surface option to work as well.
Michael