Greetings,
I'm having trouble trying to automate this process.
The perforated holes in the upper most ARC panel are being a pain.
Currently I cheat, using a BLOCK ( VL-CANOP ) inserted WCS a bit ( 0.2 ) above the ARC, then manually ROTATE and then ARRAY ( Polar ) the INSERT from a front view. Very time consuming with a lot of fudging. VL-CANOP is a flat WCS fixed size that represents a 5 hole pattern.
The ARC has some strange parameters as the chord height is consistent ( 4" ) but the chord length is variable as to the overall width of the base. This way the overall heights and geometry of the units look to be symetrical. It is always centered on the base unit width.
I have the ARC data ( CEnter, RAdius, StartAngle, EndAngle, Thickness (18) & OCS ). It is almost as if a DIVIDE or MEASURE command would work only it need to work with at least (2) OCS directions. I offset the ARC by 0.2 to represent material thickness
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Trying to model these monstrosities as a single entity would be ridiculous.
Thanks! -David
( as you can see I do not have an aversion to shortcuts so long as the final model does a decent representation to a real world solution )