I’m attempting to build a stand for some pin gauges
I have designed the negative I need to create a boolean operation into the stand
I tried to create a rectangular pattern, but it doesn’t seem to respect the original object axis as shown in the images
My inital attempt was to create the original negative shape as a boolean in the stand, and pattern the features as I’d do with fusion, but saw that it’s not a feature here in Shapr3D. I saw the standard method is to create a negative as a new body, and then pattern that instead, so that’s what I’m attempting here. Help is appreciated. Thank you
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If I understand your request correctly, you’re trying to create something like this:
And your main problem is that you can’t make the pattern follow the angled surface of the main block.
The solution is very simple: you just need to drag the gizmo to the edge of the block before setting the pattern.
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Also you can make a pattern of subtracted part
You just need to select all necessary faces for that.
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Hi,
You can also make your pattern on a rectangular shape and then rotate the top.
OR
But
Xdrakosha showed you the principle.
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Above are great options, I usually prefer not to work on a incline if possible. If you know the degree of the slope just rotate the panel do your pattern work/boolean and rotate it back once done.
If you need the bottle rotated you can rotate one make the pattern and boolean off the straight surface and rotate the whole thing back. But Xdrakosha suggesting is the feature you want to try.
Thank you everyone for the response!
Lots of good input
This is exactly what I was looking for. I’d rather just perform the boolean operation, and then directly pattern that as you showed. I was unaware we could drag the gizmo to an axis.
Thank you for this example as well.
The second example you posted shows what I’m after. Good to know there are various options
