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Originally Posted by Colin Small
Wow! Amazing work! Just curious, what do you do to make pocketing/support structure between mounting/bearing holes in CAD? Do you offset entities on the holes and then connect the expanded material through lines?
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Thank you!
To do pockets, that's basically what I do. After offsetting entities, I connect the centers of some holes with centerlines then offset them to get the inside trusses. The outside contour is made by placing lines tangent to the circles around the edge with the endpoints of the line coincident to the circles. Offset them in one direction and do an extrude-cut and select the areas to remove.
Makes a really nice shape, although sometimes you end up with corners to small to fillet normally. Then you have to use face fillets one at a time.