Thanks Jim, for your videos! Very helpful. Since getting dsm 6 I noticed all new constraint tools. I'm looking forward to your next one using these. They are confusing for me.
Dsm 6 i presume. Here is part of a dialogue i had with dsm support: Thank you for your response, in version 5 and on backwards, projecting a circle from the face of one solid to another did, indeed, draw a circle on the target face. You could then pull this to whatever depth and subsequently change the cylinder diameter. Since I first wrote I found a workaround which quickly gets the desired behaviour, the first of the options (on the left of the screen) when about to project is 'project through solid' or words to that effect. I found that by selecting that option and then pulling the resulting circle through the target object, it behaves as version 5 and backwards used to do, ie it creates an editable cylinder. It's a process I use a lot when designing stuff with mating faces and bolt holes. A handy way of using previous parts to quickly copy hole layouts. Phil, Thanks. I'm not sure the 'project through solid' should really have made that difference, but by serendipity it has. The methods I outlines also works. He attached a screenshot, the first of the options he suggests is the solution I'd already told him about! Cheers Smithy.
This is another, place a sketch plane on the face requiring a hole, use the sketcher 'project to sketch' and a circle is made that pulls to a cylinder.
You can change to the standard sketcher - it's a choice in Options... file > DSM Options > Advanced - General...disable the 'Enable Constraint based Sketching'. Close and restart DSM. then the interface or GUI will as Jims. There is a new download available 6.0.2
Thanks Jim, for your videos! Very helpful. Since getting dsm 6 I noticed all new constraint tools. I'm looking forward to your next one using these. They are confusing for me.
Dsm 6 i presume. Here is part of a dialogue i had with dsm support:
Thank you for your response, in version 5 and on backwards, projecting a circle from the face of one solid to another did, indeed, draw a circle on the target face. You could then pull this to whatever depth and subsequently change the cylinder diameter.
Since I first wrote I found a workaround which quickly gets the desired behaviour, the first of the options (on the left of the screen) when about to project is 'project through solid' or words to that effect. I found that by selecting that option and then pulling the resulting circle through the target object, it behaves as version 5 and backwards used to do, ie it creates an editable cylinder.
It's a process I use a lot when designing stuff with mating faces and bolt holes. A handy way of using previous parts to quickly copy hole layouts.
Phil,
Thanks. I'm not sure the 'project through solid' should really have made that difference, but by serendipity it has.
The methods I outlines also works.
He attached a screenshot, the first of the options he suggests is the solution I'd already told him about!
Cheers
Smithy.
This is another, place a sketch plane on the face requiring a hole, use the sketcher 'project to sketch' and a circle is made that pulls to a cylinder.
Hello Jim , do you use DSM 5 or 6 ?
I have not the same interface than you ...
Thanks for your reply .
V6.0.1 (Explorer)
You can change to the standard sketcher - it's a choice in Options... file > DSM Options > Advanced - General...disable the 'Enable Constraint based Sketching'. Close and restart DSM. then the interface or GUI will as Jims. There is a new download available 6.0.2
@@TAH1712 ok ! Thank you for that !
Done and I am happy again !!!
I've just tried my method with the planes skewed, of course it doesn't work.... Only works when the planes are in line with one another.
Newbies will most likely be making holes by drawing circles in the sketcher and then using the pull tool through or to depth.
There is no brainer that under angle ther will not be a circles anymore
Compared to solidworks seems a BA.
Toolmaking machanical