ok, here's a suggestion-if you have a spline with no sketch points, pick any plane intersecting that curve, then draw a point, attach that with pierce-exit and you can define a plane with curve point, selecting the curve and the point. Hope this helps
@@cademist thanks to your tutorial, my professor was impressed by the projects i did in onshape so he appreciated my interest and enthusiasm. I also 3d printed this and the results were incredible.
@@cademist I'm an IT engineering student and computer assisted graphics is a discipline we are learning. If you want to, i will send you an Gmail with the pictures i took. 😉
I am a software engineer and I know very little about 3D design. This will be a starting point for me to design a night lamp for my daughter. I have learned a lot about the concepts and the approach I should take. Thanks a lot.
That's impressive-I consider this model advanced, with the projection of curves to spheres-I like your idea to make this a design step for a night lamp! I'm sure your daughter will like it.
Thank you very much...... i did this exersice one on one and it worked. But when i did my own 4-way pipe i could not use the thickning tool. I use D=12.3 L=25 and starting ofset 25. The hight of the sketch for the split i used 6. Are these dimensions useble ? Kind regards, Peter
ok, there are limits for that connecting surface. Maybe you need to change the value for the "weight" this has on the tangency. I think I left it a 1. Try with a smaller value.
@@cademist Thank you very much.... i did play with the dimensions and it workt. I am realy new to OnShape but i love it to create and then 3d print this. thx again and greetings from Holland
Nice video! I made a similar one a few months ago using the same triangle construction technique. Later I found the parametric curve equations for the trefoil knot on Wikipedia. Might be a good opportunity to show OnShape's parametric curve functionality!
Wow, that's awesome you've been using Onshape for 6 months! It's a powerful tool. Keep practicing, and you'll be creating amazing things yourself in no time!
Could you do a tutorial on a set of stairs in fusion 360.. Teknicad's channel has a good demonstration for a straight stairs but the audio is terrible and he uses parametric variables which makes it difficult to follow.. Thanks.
This is great. "Thinking parametrically" is a challenge for me. I think it would have taken a while for me to figure out that the correct way to do this is to use "sweep" with "intersect", for example. Thinking in CAD is like learning a foreign language that has no common roots with your mother tongue.
Sorry to hear that. compare with mine-I share a link with you of my lego man: cad.onshape.com/documents/520fb3bd400c2c80d9f08b74/w/2d8fc92554dc566f3189fea5/e/59b6dd04ccd9c6649659440a?renderMode=0&uiState=666ac53a1c65d142ed2b89e3
Hey there! Thanks for the suggestion. While I'm not comfortable creating a video about a bullet specifically, I am always looking for new 3D modeling ideas.
No worries, eurospec! This tutorial will be here for whenever you need it. Although, maybe next time you can plan your plumbing projects a bit further in advance? ;)
@@cademist just got around to making this today, worked like a charm. Thanks for the video, taught me new skills, particularly building with surfaces rather than solids and using surface fills rather than just using lofts to connect everything.
@@eurospec That's awesome! So glad to hear the video helped and you were able to put those new skills to use! Building with surfaces is a great technique to have in your toolbox.
Thanks for letting me know, Richard! I'm happy the surface techniques are a valuable learning experience. Are there any specific surface commands you'd like to see covered in a future video?
@@cademist I have no previous experience with surfaces or curves, except for the most basic of splines. I find what you do to be fascinating and trying to understand your models always leads to a few new things to read and practice. Really appreciate what you share with us.
Nice demonstration, thank you, I picked up a few new tips. I especially like how you split the faces of three surfaces with a single sketch, I would never have done it that elegantly. If I can offer you a tip, when you use the fill tool, if you set the first edge to curvature continuity, then each subsequent edge you select will also have curvature selected. You still need to add the corresponding faces, but it saves you a couple of clicks :)
