Mapped sketch in PD/sweep/loft/wrap feature

an idea to enhance Part Design is to merge the “mapped sketch” function into PD module. This allows to create both paths for sweep (or section for loft) and to create the missing “wrap feature” (wrapping a sketch over a surface to add or remove material).

working in a WB with direct feature is always better than wandering about two or three ones to create a function

what do you think?

Not sure what you are talking about. Sketcher MapSketch is available in PartDesign.

that you need to be more verbose when describing requests/proposals, contrary to popular belief people on the internet can’t actually read minds :wink:

adrianinsaval chrisb

sorry,

i mean the mapped sketch on a cylindrical/non-planar surface (the one from Curve WB) in order to:

  1. make directly the “wrap feature” (adding or removing material by wrapping a sketch onto a cylindrical/non-planar face

  2. getting a curve (path) for a following sweep feature

all that directly in PD without going in and out various WB …

IMO PartDesign is not the right place to implement generic tools like this and we shouldn’t make that mistake again (see datum objects and subshapebinders), that doesn’t mean we can’t include it in PartDesign once it’s implemented in the core if it’s a commonly used tool there.

Instead Part or Sketcher might be better places to put this tool. Besides that I do agree this would be a nice to have built-in tool.

You can create your own toolbar and make the Curves tool available in PartDesign workbench.