That's great explanations, Andrew. In the course of encountering those pattern obstacles I have found the same issues with drafts and other feature creation. So I have used this patterned body method as well. Great tutorial as always. Thanks!
It's good to see that this is an acceptable thing to do. I have heard from more than one person to never include draft in features. Sometimes it can be hard to tell what is actual best practice or just what some dude has been doing since '95. It would be really cool to see another project like that drill that we could pick apart to learn more and/or reaffirm best practices. It seems like your team has a smart and intuitive approach to CAD. Hopefully you will correct me if I am wrong, but it does not appear to be full-on Resilient Modeling, which means you allow yourself the room to leverage the strengths of Solidworks while also not wasting time/effort on tasks that require unnecessary upkeep.
I tried this "Curve Driven Pattern" on a 3D Sketch Pattern Direction. I was unable to use the "Tangent to Curve" in "Alignment Methods". I was only able to use this feature keeping "Align to Seed". Looks like the "Tangent to Curve" works only for 2D Sketch in Pattern Direction
Hey George! I'm not sure what you are asking about "that first groove feature". Maybe that is from another video? If you help me out with what you are asking about, I'd be happy to respond. Thanks!
@@DiMonteGroupInc hey :) I mean the first filleted feature of the curved pattern. Is it a drafted extruded boss ? Where's the plane on which the sketch of this feature is drawn upon?
George, I believe that you are asking about “Groove Rib-Extrude-Thin1”, which is extruded from “Sketch6”. “Sketch6” is on the Right Plane. There are two ways to make that rib using a Thin feature Extrude: 1. Extrude in both directions, specifying a “Blind” distance for Direction 1 and “Up to Next” for direction 2 2. Using the “From” box at the top of the extrusion dialog to specify an “Offset” for where the extrusion starts. Extrusions don't have to tart from their sketch plane! This is extremely useful, especially if you are adding draft into the definition of the feature. If extruding in both directions, you have a lot of chances to make a mistake in both the value and direction of the draft. Starting from an offset, there is only one draft and direction. I hope I answered what you are looking for. If so, that was a keen-eyed question!
You guys do an incredible job with these videos. Been watching and referencing these for weeks. Really looking forward to the one on snap fit joints!
That's great explanations, Andrew. In the course of encountering those pattern obstacles I have found the same issues with drafts and other feature creation. So I have used this patterned body method as well. Great tutorial as always. Thanks!
Hello, thank you very much for Rhodes tutorials. They are so help full. You did a great job. 👍🏼
It's good to see that this is an acceptable thing to do. I have heard from more than one person to never include draft in features. Sometimes it can be hard to tell what is actual best practice or just what some dude has been doing since '95. It would be really cool to see another project like that drill that we could pick apart to learn more and/or reaffirm best practices. It seems like your team has a smart and intuitive approach to CAD. Hopefully you will correct me if I am wrong, but it does not appear to be full-on Resilient Modeling, which means you allow yourself the room to leverage the strengths of Solidworks while also not wasting time/effort on tasks that require unnecessary upkeep.
thank you to all dimonte group member
I tried this "Curve Driven Pattern" on a 3D Sketch Pattern Direction. I was unable to use the "Tangent to Curve" in "Alignment Methods". I was only able to use this feature keeping "Align to Seed".
Looks like the "Tangent to Curve" works only for 2D Sketch in Pattern Direction
Thank you for this great tutorial. No thanks to solidborks for requiring a second step to just get a pattern to follow a sketch :(
Thanks
Could you please explain how you created that first groove feature
Hey George! I'm not sure what you are asking about "that first groove feature". Maybe that is from another video?
If you help me out with what you are asking about, I'd be happy to respond. Thanks!
@@DiMonteGroupInc hey :)
I mean the first filleted feature of the curved pattern.
Is it a drafted extruded boss ? Where's the plane on which the sketch of this feature is drawn upon?
George,
I believe that you are asking about “Groove Rib-Extrude-Thin1”, which is extruded from “Sketch6”.
“Sketch6” is on the Right Plane.
There are two ways to make that rib using a Thin feature Extrude:
1. Extrude in both directions, specifying a “Blind” distance for Direction 1 and “Up to Next” for direction 2
2. Using the “From” box at the top of the extrusion dialog to specify an “Offset” for where the extrusion starts. Extrusions don't have to tart from their sketch plane! This is extremely useful, especially if you are adding draft into the definition of the feature. If extruding in both directions, you have a lot of chances to make a mistake in both the value and direction of the draft. Starting from an offset, there is only one draft and direction.
I hope I answered what you are looking for. If so, that was a keen-eyed question!
@@DiMonteGroupInc thank you :)