Curved Shapes Workbench

[Kunda1]

I am trying to design a fan duct for a 3d printer, and hitting an issue trying to connect to rectangle sketches which are at 90 degrees to each other with a Curved Segment, at the end of the profile.

BTW, another Joko video using Curved Shapes!

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[drmacro]

So I caught a glimpse of joko engineering using the Curved Shapes WB using a twist property. And that reminded me.

It's possible to make sweeps that resemble wire harness...though getting the profile of the wire to sweep along with offset away from components IS a bit tedious in Draft WB... (I'd love to learn techniques that make that easier/more efficient.)

But, the gist of this post is to wonder if there is a way to make twisted sweeps like shown here?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KId94FyFNHw

[pointdee]

Feature Request

Awesome work so far - Please see attached. I would like to be able to sweep Sketch001 along Sketch003 so that the created profile has a Z value (in this case) determined by Sketch002. The items created would always be perpendicular to Sketch003

I hope that makes sense but if not please ask for clarification. Apologies if this is already easily possible via your workbench or elsewhere in FreeCAD and I've missed it

Thanks

Paul

[christi]

JOKO Engineering made a tutorial on using CurvedShapes

Great tutorial !
I have added it to the README of the Curved Shapes workbench

[christi]

It's possible to make sweeps that resemble wire harness...though getting the profile of the wire to sweep along with offset away from components IS a bit tedious in Draft WB... (I'd love to learn techniques that make that easier/more efficient.)

Feature Request
Awesome work so far - Please see attached. I would like to be able to sweep Sketch001 along Sketch003 so that the created profile has a Z value (in this case) determined by Sketch002. The items created would always be perpendicular to Sketch003

In the moment there is no way to sweep a shape along a path in the Curved Shaped WB.
But I think this can be done with some modifications of the Curved Array tool.
I will keep this in mind ...

[drmacro]

It's possible to make sweeps that resemble wire harness...though getting the profile of the wire to sweep along with offset away from components IS a bit tedious in Draft WB... (I'd love to learn techniques that make that easier/more efficient.)

Feature Request
Awesome work so far - Please see attached. I would like to be able to sweep Sketch001 along Sketch003 so that the created profile has a Z value (in this case) determined by Sketch002. The items created would always be perpendicular to Sketch003

In the moment there is no way to sweep a shape along a path in the Curved Shaped WB.
But I think this can be done with some modifications of the Curved Array tool.
I will keep this in mind ...

Cool, would be really useful with the Kicad stepup workbench fer instance.

[pointdee]

In the moment there is no way to sweep a shape along a path in the Curved Shaped WB.
But I think this can be done with some modifications of the Curved Array tool.
I will keep this in mind ...

Thanks

Paul

[christi]

I have added a new tool Curved Path Array that is able to arrange the array items around a sweep path.

[Kunda1]

I have added a new tool Curved Path Array that is able to arrange the array items around a sweep path.

Nice! is there documentation on it ?

[christi]

Nice! is there documentation on it ?

Yes, in the README