Trying to do a simple speaker ball…the cutout is already made and now I need to cutout from the inner side 4 polygons for the the nuts.
The add construction plane offers the possibility to align it flat to a selected surface…but I can’t select the surface which is inside…and since the outer parallel surface is angled, i can’t use that for drawing because it would move the polygon sketch not at the angle the construction plane is.
So how can I add a construction plane inside? Or is there a trick to move the sketch perpendicular to the plane?
I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve. But, if it’s what I think it is, here’s a way.
First, you don’t need to use a construction plane, nor make any polygon sketches on the inside. Make you polygon externally and extrude the nut. Align the nut with flat surface and then move the nut inward to the desired location. Then subtract the nut from the sphere and you’ll have hex recesses.
Select body and click “align” and select inner circle of the nut front and the screw hole in the body…aligns fine…
When I reselect the nut and do a transform it can be only moved in xyz axis…not at the angle of the nut…
So I have to position the nut before I click “finish” for the align process…but in your video I see that you do a regular move command which is done at the right angle…guess I’m missing something here…
You answered your own question. BTW, you don’t have to align with the inner circle, you can re-align the Move/Rotate point at other surfaces of the body you wish to move provided they point to the desired local XYZ (versus true XYZ).
Tried something different now…from the assembly point of view it should be anyway better (o;
Sketched the real size of the nut plus some few 0.1mm to adjust the 3D printing errors…and then extruded it sideways so I could subtract it from the body.