fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
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fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
I am new to FreeCad. Is there a faster way of assembling a model containing lots of holed and dowel pins which must go into them? The constant rotating, selecting, and constraining for each dowel/hole is tedious!
Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
How about telling us more about your project. I'm not even sure if this an assembly question or not.
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Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
Attach your ASAP file, I know that during the first tread you can't put attachments, now you can
it is better to make a single pocket (less luxurious than Hole) and a LinearPatern or Multifunction if the holes are distributed regularly
Same for dowels
it is better to make a single pocket (less luxurious than Hole) and a LinearPatern or Multifunction if the holes are distributed regularly
Same for dowels
Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
That's not true. We see here first time posts showing everything we need for efficient help, including images and files.papyblaise wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:35 am I know that during the first tread you can't put attachments,
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Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
There is feature to create dowels at holes with single click (the dowels size is predefined):
but if you want move your dowels into hole position you can use mapPosition feature to map your dowel with the new created. There is no tool that directly move dowel into hole position maybe this is good idea for new feature?
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Darek
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Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
One sketch controls placement and number of holes and dowels...
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Re: fast way to assemble lots of dowels into holes??
I added this feature to existing tool mapPosition. And also now is possible to map Sketch to hole to create for example custom countersink and also to face, edge or vertex. So now you can even move the countersink to another hole after Pocket operation.
Thanks
Darek
github.com/dprojects
workbench for woodworking is available at: github.com/dprojects/Woodworking