Weekly Challenge Group

Nice gadget!!

Inventor

For something a little harder. Instead of the corner radius, run a 1mm diameter groove about 1.5mm from the outside edge, all the way around on the two outside surfaces.

Took 8 features but could easily be trimmed to 7.

I have not managed to reduce the number of operations for the original challenge. Whereas, for Bob's proposal, I have only added two operations (5 in total).

When I saw https://grabcad.com/capricornio-1's solution with only 5 steps, I also saw 'The Light©' :-)

It only strikes me that your tree has 1 solid but also 1 surface. Maybe we don't adopt exactly the same solution!

You know that I love surfaces :-)

But you have inspired me again:

Now 3 steps with groove :-)

It is all in the power of the mind:

When you think that you know that a solution is possible, you find it, even though you may have 'Seen the Light®', in the process :-)

With a change more in form than in substance... I can also say that I did it in "3 operations".

I had used a path that, for some reason, was not embedded in the groove operation. Now I changed it to a 3D sketch and it is embedded, with which it "appears" one less operation than before...

Actually, for "the same price" we can add the fillet radius that we removed earlier...

I got this with 7 features

CATIA V5 with 3 features plus extracted curve. (green Pad, blue Pocket, red Groove)

Hey, we never gave any solutions. Did everyone figure it out?

If not, I have made a Tutorial:

Grabcad tutorial

See 'The Light©' with the '3 Step Max'-Challenge

I have realised, that we never disclosed any solution to this challenge: https://grabcad.com/groups/weekly-challenge-group/discussions/3-step-max so here comes a complete tutorial on how I did it. Even though the model is only 3 steps, it contains 7 features and the tutorial use 27 steps, because...

Cheers,

Steen

done

Got it