3D Programs

[Mr Man]

Don't I have to get it to connect from the vertex point to vertex point to get the guides to work right?

Oh yeah, hmm…

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I don't know if you can angle a plane like this?

 

[Mr Man]

Yeah idk, just try positioning the plane as close as you can? Hopefully you can still draw the sketch using those vertices. You can always adjust later if it’s off.

 

[Mr Man]

Whoops, just saw ur post.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Yeah idk, just try positioning the plane as close as you can? Hopefully you can still draw the sketch using those vertices. You can always adjust later if it’s off.

Yeah it give me an error saying all guides must be connected when i tried doing that....

 

[Mr Man]

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Perfect thanks!

 

[Flying Monkey fab]

I'm not even sure if I understand the question completely but Fusion has eight different ways to make construction planes, surely one of them will do the trick?

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I'm not even sure if I understand the question completely but Fusion has eight different ways to make construction planes, surely one of them will do the trick?

Unfortunately I can't use Fusion because I don't have windows 8+

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I think I might have something though......

 

[Flying Monkey fab]

I don't have windows 8+

I can't even imagine! I'll probably have to buy another desktop machine this fall due to the current one won't update to 11.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I can't even imagine! I'll probably have to buy another desktop machine this fall due to the current one won't update to 11.

Yikes! LOL I am on windows 7 part time but mainly run linux because most programs aren't supporting windows 7 anymore.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Hey guys I just wanted to share with you that 3d lines and splines are VERY useful for making "guide curves" for lofting! I wish i knew about it at the start of my design!

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Also if you have two lofts like this:

Use "Delete face" and set it to "Heal" and it will sometimes fix it up like this!

 

[Flying Monkey fab]

Funny you bring this up now as a Fusion educator I follow was just posting on splines.

Hey guys I just wanted to share with you that 3d lines and splines are VERY useful for making "guide curves" for lofting! I wish i knew about it at the start of my design!

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Funny you bring this up now as a Fusion educator I follow was just posting on splines.

Lol, Yeah i just got the 3D don't on the Sr-71 I am designing and am now doing 2D.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I just learned something really cool with 3D spline in Onshape! ( I feel like I should have found this out a LONG time ago 😂 )

So if you are making a nose for a plane ( F-16 in this case) and you are using 3D splines for controlling your loft profiles, I would have normally just used "Match curvature at end" (or start) and I would have gotten the curve I wanted.....

but if you flip to the side plane, you might get this funny curve

You can actually control that by using The match curvature at start (Or vise versa) and select a line along the plane that is perpendicular to the one you used for your other curve and then you can control the curve along that angle like this:

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Better example of the "off curve" here:

And here it is fixed

 

[Mr Man]

Cool! 👍 👍 👍

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Any of you chaps familiar with Blender? I have been messing around with it for my 3D printed airplanes, and it seems to be pretty powerful!