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Creating solids manually (using wires) (by Henré Botha)
Is it possible in SolveSpace to manually create a solid by drawing the wires that define its edges? This would give me a way to work around virtually every gripe I have with the software.
(no subject) (by Paul)
No, but you're not the first to suggest this. Would the convex hull of a set of points/lines be good enough?
(no subject) (by Andrew)
No, but by using construction lines in 3d, it could give you a framework to define sketches, for additive and subtractive solids to form the object.
(no subject) (by Paul)
You can do that now. Switch to sketch in 3d, make your framework, then use it to define workplanes where you sketch and extrude using booleans.
(no subject) (by Jonathan Westhues)
I'd considered that "wireframe to solid" feature before. You can probably do better than the convex hull, since a wireframe is often unambiguous even for concave regions (though not always of course). That might actually be easier to implement too, since you know all your edges.
design folded enclosures from metal (by cmpxchg)
when designing folded enclosures from metal, it would great to have both a 3D shape, and one or more planes that these shapes can be reduced to.
Angle constraints in prior groups, could be made conditional in a final group to make this work, or some other way to use solvespace sourcefiles as part of a 'CAM' workflow, by feeding in open DOFs / paramters prior to rendering.
Angle constraints in prior groups, could be made conditional in a final group to make this work, or some other way to use solvespace sourcefiles as part of a 'CAM' workflow, by feeding in open DOFs / paramters prior to rendering.
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