Parting plane for mold-design, how to trim at silhouette on the outer radius?
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Re: Parting plane for mold-design, how to trim at silhouette on the outer radius?
Check my file. reflecting line seems be a right solution.
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Re: Parting plane for mold-design, how to trim at silhouette on the outer radius?
Getting the parting line via reflect lines works very well, and is even parametric. Thank you for this feature!
I am still struggling to construct a parting *plane* based on this though. The regular extrusion / offset etc tools do not seem to like the reflect line output, even after converting it to splines in the curves WB, creating a ruled surface between two copies etc. Has anyone managed to create a reasonable mold parting plane from a 3d reflect line?
Edit: GlouGlou found a great solution using the Curves WB PipeShell in another thread:
- GlouGlou's solution: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 10#p324127
- Some additional notes: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 54#p340754
I am still struggling to construct a parting *plane* based on this though. The regular extrusion / offset etc tools do not seem to like the reflect line output, even after converting it to splines in the curves WB, creating a ruled surface between two copies etc. Has anyone managed to create a reasonable mold parting plane from a 3d reflect line?
Edit: GlouGlou found a great solution using the Curves WB PipeShell in another thread:
- GlouGlou's solution: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 10#p324127
- Some additional notes: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 54#p340754