Alright, I am still making that spoilboard. I utilized linear paths in Part Design to make over 100 double-pockets for cylindrical t-nuts to be hammered into. However, there are almost a dozen of them, and around a dozen double pockets on the opposite side that will accommodate wood screws to secure the spoilboard to the OSB base the machine is made of(the base 4 is layers of pallet dividers glued together).
I'm wondering if there's any way to streamline the file to lower the number of individual machining operations that I need to set up in the PATH Job.
Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
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Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
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Re: Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
First to your model: There is a multipattern which you should use to create all the holes. It would have been enough to model one hole then.
And there is a Path array in Path workbench for repititions of paths.
And there is a Path array in Path workbench for repititions of paths.
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Re: Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
Here is a another way, I have used holes instead of pockets, and patterns. The spacings may not match exactly but I couldn't be bothered to go looking at each sketch.... etc. That is why we use parametric software to make it easy to change.
My file is only 1/5 as large as yours.
My file is only 1/5 as large as yours.
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Re: Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
and me, my grain of salt, it seems to me that your object is divisible by 4, so you make it 1/4 and a double mirror
Re: Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH
Thank you all for the replies.
These were what I needed to figure out the individual steps:
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/PartDesign_MultiTransform
FreeCAD - Linear pattern in two directions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfbrfItvOCA
These were what I needed to figure out the individual steps:
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/PartDesign_MultiTransform
FreeCAD - Linear pattern in two directions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfbrfItvOCA
BOOTSTRAPPY WORKSHOP - Where we do more with less
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