About making draft lines

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July 18, 2014
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If you don't have mold options,

do you know way of making draft lines by standard feature ?

Please tell me the way if you have ideas.

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Best answer by TomD.inPDX

And one more that uses the tangent surface feature. Not completely intuitive and a difficult to manage interface, but the angle should be a consistent 15 degrees.

As with all things that require draft angles, this really puts you in what I term "a 12D environment". There are so many ways to define the same (similar) thing that it is hard to second guess the designer or the toolmaker.

In this instance, I had to go to the help pages to get some guidance on the Tangent Surface module. Even so, it was tricky to get even the basic version to work.

Since the top is sloped, the 175mm offset surface is there to make sure the tangency angle is maintained. A section defined the offset required for the 15 degree tangency.