Pocketing inside a sketch, outside a contained sketch
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Tony Diethelm
Dec 15, 2015, 1:31:36 PM12/15/15
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Hi all,
I'm new to HeeksCAD/CNC, after jumping from PyCAM. So far I have it figured out fairly well, but I ran into a problem.
I have a solution, but it's inelegant and I wanted to see what y'all thought.
I'm making a sign. I want to route out my house numbers, as a pocket operation. Attached is a pic of what I want.
Alas, the 8 and 9 have separate sketches for the outside and the inside. I want to route out the area inbetween the two sketches! I could not for the life of me find a good way to do this!
I resorted to extruding the sketches into solids, then doing a boolean subtraction to get rid of the middle part, as in the "9" in my attached pic. The "8" is in the process. Then when I had the solid with a hole in the middle, I created a sketch from the face.
It works, but I'd love it if there was a faster and more elegant method.
Thanks!
Tony Diethelm
I'm new to HeeksCAD/CNC, after jumping from PyCAM. So far I have it figured out fairly well, but I ran into a problem.
I have a solution, but it's inelegant and I wanted to see what y'all thought.
I'm making a sign. I want to route out my house numbers, as a pocket operation. Attached is a pic of what I want.
Alas, the 8 and 9 have separate sketches for the outside and the inside. I want to route out the area inbetween the two sketches! I could not for the life of me find a good way to do this!
I resorted to extruding the sketches into solids, then doing a boolean subtraction to get rid of the middle part, as in the "9" in my attached pic. The "8" is in the process. Then when I had the solid with a hole in the middle, I created a sketch from the face.
It works, but I'd love it if there was a faster and more elegant method.
Thanks!
Tony Diethelm
Tony Diethelm
Dec 15, 2015, 1:41:22 PM12/15/15
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Ha!
Naturally, I found the fix RIGHT after I asked for help. :D
I combined the outside and inside sketches into one sketch, and noticed the "order" in the properties was "bad". I changed it to "reorder". It then displayed "multiple" and everything worked after that.
Thanks!
Tony
Naturally, I found the fix RIGHT after I asked for help. :D
I combined the outside and inside sketches into one sketch, and noticed the "order" in the properties was "bad". I changed it to "reorder". It then displayed "multiple" and everything worked after that.
Thanks!
Tony
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