Hello all,
I am in need of an easy to work with wire forming workbench. I have come up with a design for one here: http://timothy.hobbs.cz/wireforming-wor ... index.html .
I'm interested to hear feedback. I don't know when exactly I will write the code for this, or IF I will write the code for this . I am considering putting up the proposal on freelancer.com just for laughs not that I expect to get usable code out of that. I've never tried doing such a thing before...
Tim
Wireforming workbench
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Re: Wireforming workbench
That looks like a "one dimensional" version on Sheet Metal workbench - maybe they could share some common code?
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Re: Wireforming workbench
You are right, that I should be able to use the extrude function form sheet metal verbatim. They also have a bend function that could be coaxed into working as a wireforming bend function. There is no turn function there. The UI is also rather different. I would like to have a table style UI for wireforming so that the wire forms could be edited. I don't think such a table style UI is useful for sheet metal, however, since one tends to modify the sheets by punching holes in them, so editing using a table style operation set isn't possible.
Thanks for your tip,
Tim
Thanks for your tip,
Tim
Re: Wireforming workbench
Interesting idea and approach for modifying parameters. Will follow your progress.