Curves SketchOnSurface
Curves SketchOnSurface |
Menu location |
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Curves → Sketch on Surface |
Workbenches |
Curves |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
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See also |
None |
Description
This tool maps a sketch onto a face.
The sketch must be actually attached to a face (see Sketch.Support).
The Map
mode of the sketch has no effect on the result.
Above: shows the Sketch_on_surface
object applied to the cylinder face (left) and the source sketch in edit mode (right)
Usage
- Switch to the Curves workbench (you may need to install it via the Addon Manager
- There are 2 methods to use the SketchOnSurface tool:
- You already have a sketch that you want to map on a face
- Attach the sketch to the target face.
- Edit the sketch and add a Construction (blue) rectangle around the geometries.
- This rectangle will be the parametric bounds of the face.
- Exit edit mode.
- Select the sketch and activate SketchOnSurface by either:
- You have no sketch to map yet
- Select the target face in the 3D view
- Activate SketchOnSurface by either:
- A default sketch will be created and attached to this face.
- A SketchOnSurface object will be created upon this sketch.
- Edit the sketch and add geometries inside the blue construction bounds.
Options
- Fill Extrusion: When the Thickness value is not null, this will generate lofting faces (the blue faces in the above screenshot).
- Fill Faces: This will fill all closed wires of the mapped shapes into faces (the red faces in the above screenshot).
- Offset: This will offset the mapped shapes above or behind the target face.
- Thickness: If not null, this will create a second set of shapes, that will be offset by the given value from the first ones.
Properties
Limitations
Curves
- Curves IsoCurve, Curves JoinCurve, Curves ParametricComb, Curves ParametricSolid, .................
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