davidosterberg wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:23 pm
Ok. I thought that you meant something else because this does not quite make sense to me. Loft will loft between two sections. Why would we want to apply a taper angle there?
It seems we have a misunderstanding. To clarify how it currently works:
PD Loft:
- take e.g. 2 sketches and build a shell between them
identified problem: the shell is always a spline -> this should be fixed
Part Extrude:
- take e.g. a single sketch, duplicate it and offset the duplicate according to the given taper angle
- do the same for the second direction and second taper angle
- take all sketches and build a shell
identified problems:
- the shell is always a spline -> this should be fixed
- inner wires are not handles
So one Extrude issue is solved by applying the Loft code and the Loft issue is hopefully resolved by your proposal.
Therefore the stages are
1. fix Loft
2. use the loft code for Part Extrude
3. make PD pad use the same code than Part Extrude
davidosterberg wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:23 pm
If FreeCAD chooses to use the Loft method I will simply close the PR. It was fun as an experiment.
Please not. I hope this post makes clear what my strategy is. So when it works out well your method will be used by 3 different features.