Grid Extrude Tour: Custom Feature for Onshape

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  • Опубликовано: 24 янв 2025

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  • @collaborativeclockworks
    @collaborativeclockworks 11 месяцев назад +10

    I am a lonely noob. I was today years old when I learned I could search for and add custom tools to the toolbar. Thanks! This is fun, I took a break from playing with it to say it could be a very useful and time saving tool for jewelry designers that use CAD. Imagine creating a piece of jewelry with hundreds of stones (Iced Out) this tool could be game changer.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks! It only works on extrudable things (i.e. not the outside of a whole ring), but it could certainly be used in that way in some cases. There are a lot of fantastic custom features out there from the community.

  • @redstoneprojectrules
    @redstoneprojectrules 5 дней назад

    Now in a circular manner and it is absolutely gold

  • @AlfieMaxMiMi
    @AlfieMaxMiMi Месяц назад +2

    Making speaker grills in Fusion 360 takes forever and often freezes using the pattern tool. Used Onshape for the first time last night, and found it a lot easier to use. Now I've found this plugin, there's no way I'm going back to fusion. Amazing work. Thank you 😊

  • @Andrew_Chao
    @Andrew_Chao 9 дней назад +1

    Thank you - this is going to save me so much time - I never knew there were so many powerful onshape addons!

  • @zakaroonetwork777
    @zakaroonetwork777 Год назад +5

    Thank You So Much. This is a Dream Come True. New to OnShape after 20 Years of SolidWorks and there is no turning back.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      Right!? I've wanted this feature for years, and now I can just make it

  • @frankzehelein
    @frankzehelein 29 дней назад +1

    Thank you for this custom feature! Was ready to spend hours to research and fiddle with settings and half-hand-baked replicated hexagons to remove parts of a solid structure. Was done in 5 minutes including finding your video, figuring out how to use custom features and applying it - thanks a lot 🙂

  • @_B_K_
    @_B_K_ 2 месяца назад +1

    This is fantastic! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! :)

  • @itsnessen
    @itsnessen 11 месяцев назад +1

    Just came here to say this tool was incredibly useful to me. Thanks for taking the time to share your work!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад

      I'm so glad.

  • @tankertoby_1.35
    @tankertoby_1.35 4 месяца назад +1

    Im so happy i found this video! I've been making speaker meshes by just patterning hexagons and then struggling to get an even coverage this tool makes it so so easy and save so much time. THANK YOU

  • @carlwestman9343
    @carlwestman9343 Месяц назад

    Thank you so much for this! It was amazingly easy to use! Just used it for a protection for a fan :)

  • @Nifty-Stuff
    @Nifty-Stuff Год назад +4

    I just spent about 3 hours trying to create a sieve / screen with holes... and tried a bunch of different ways (I'm a noob)... but this is BRILLIANT! I'm subscribing just for this! Keep up the great work!!!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      right on!

  • @SuperNova153
    @SuperNova153 3 месяца назад

    This was super helpful. I'm new to Onshape and this saved me so much time; so simple and functional. Greatly appreciated!

  • @ahack210
    @ahack210 Месяц назад

    This is such a great add on. Thanks so much for sharing with the community! I am a total OnShape newby and I was able to use this immediately for a firewall mount where I needed to have good ventilation. 5 Stars and thanks for the video!

  • @NikOutchcunis
    @NikOutchcunis 10 месяцев назад

    THANK YOU FOR THIS! I'm new and I was banging my head against a wall just to a get a simple pattern on a surface. You rock!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад +1

      Glad it helped!

  • @SQalli
    @SQalli 2 месяца назад

    Just dropping a comment to say thank you for this feature. Im still quite new to onshape and hadnt used any external plugins before, but yours was super easy to use.

  • @NotThatDusty
    @NotThatDusty 10 месяцев назад

    I'm in love!
    I just started using OnShape for knife prototyping and this feature will be a godsend for texturing scales.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад

      Right on!

  • @atomicarson7962
    @atomicarson7962 Год назад

    This is absolutely genius. Hours of work done in seconds. You're a legend dude!!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I get happy using it for sure, because I've done it the hard way too many times.

  • @jasonchristensen6631
    @jasonchristensen6631 5 месяцев назад

    First custom feature I have used. So easy and plenty of options for what I needed. Thank you

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  5 месяцев назад

      Great to hear!

  • @rustyshackleford6341
    @rustyshackleford6341 Год назад

    Dude.... You just saved me so much headache and time. Thankyou! I've made several honey comb designs and they were a pain. This takes me seconds. Thankyou again! You have my sub good sir.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Thanks! 🙌 They really are a pain to model manually, and even more so if you want it to be updateable.

  • @Flopshoubox
    @Flopshoubox 8 месяцев назад

    Dude, your extension is game changer !
    I was struggling to create a grid with holes.
    5 seconds with your extension

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  8 месяцев назад

      Thanks!

  • @thomasseverino9351
    @thomasseverino9351 Месяц назад

    made my day a whole heck of a lot easier... Thanks!

  • @smartmarketers2584
    @smartmarketers2584 9 месяцев назад

    This is really good. It has some minor quarks, but I can certainly live with that. It's a real time saver! Thanks.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  9 месяцев назад

      Glad it helped!

  • @henrikbakk1
    @henrikbakk1 Год назад +3

    THANKS so much for this - have designed parts with similar patterns ealier, struggling with both performance and flexibility (especially the parts near the side etc). Super handy for 3D-printing :)

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      Awesome! I've been doing CAD (esp Onshape) long enough that when I find a recurring pain-point, I've got to assume that others feel it to, so if there's a way to address it with a custom feature, I like to try.

  • @hagus42
    @hagus42 Год назад

    Oh wow, just a few days ago I struggled to create a hexagonal pattern that filled a particular face so I could have a honeycomb effect on one of my 3D printed parts. I was literally scrubbing back and forth in one of your Onshape tips & tricks videos but just couldn't make it behave how I wanted (and Onshape really started to cough and splutter once the pattern became large, lots of spinners). In the end, I used the Bambu slicer to create an exposed honeycomb infill as a workaround. I can't wait to get back in front of Onshape and test your feature out!
    One thought: it would still be great one day to have a video detailing how to create these patterns manually, for those of us who like to know how things work from first principles.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Nice! it's perfect for that application. As for a video about how to do it manually, there are a ton of ways. Here's an example of one nice way: cad.onshape.com/documents/873165cc6d04ade445104eb1/w/47abdb40a132a6283df63fa5/e/2a4880ce2e99ae4427f41d6a
      We love our bambu machines over here too btw.

  • @jamiemacdonald436
    @jamiemacdonald436 Год назад

    Thank you. I haven't even finished watching but I've already loaded it and can't wait to put it to use!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      awesome!

  • @infiniteone11
    @infiniteone11 Год назад

    That will save me so much time. Absolute game changer. Thank you 🙏

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      Happy to help!

  • @gavincostigan4641
    @gavincostigan4641 Год назад

    You're work is much appreciated.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      thanks!

  • @lmcjr6268
    @lmcjr6268 Год назад

    I just found your channel and love the content. Please keep em coming.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Thank you! Will do!

  • @sofun12
    @sofun12 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much I just made a grid for my led panel
    Works great

  • @TooTallToby
    @TooTallToby Год назад +1

    Awww yeah I really want to try this - I have some similar geometry in a pot holder / hot pad. This looks amazing!!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      I think I know the ones. Like these? m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-0FS8W2CL._AC_SL1374_.jpg
      I couldn't help but imagine spending all this time coding it for people to only use it for bar mats, haha. I mean, it's the perfect tool for that though, I just hope someone also uses it on something that goes to space.

  • @kettleblaze4887
    @kettleblaze4887 4 месяца назад

    Thanks!!! This is really a life saver for me! 😍

  • @williambilse
    @williambilse Год назад +1

    Exactly what I need to add some texture. Thank you.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Happy to help!

  • @user-et5kg7vr9y
    @user-et5kg7vr9y Месяц назад

    Much appreciated! This tool is super solid!

  • @kalysta5880
    @kalysta5880 8 месяцев назад

    This is so great! Real time saver 😃 After using this feature, I found it very user friendly and met my project needs. I do have a suggestion for a minor addon, if possible…maybe add a thickness parameter for the border. Thank you for your feature!!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  8 месяцев назад +1

      Awesome! I assumed that I'd almost always want the border the same width, and for the other times I can always follow up this feature with another thin extrude of the same profile if you need a different border width. It's always a battle to keep feature interfaces simple, and this one is already pretty complex. But you're not the first person to suggest it, so I'll think about it.

  • @SidekickElements
    @SidekickElements 10 месяцев назад

    like like like. I tried 2 other featurescripts and then made this manually out of a sketch pattern before finding this featurescript.
    Works perfectly and I will use it in ALLLL my 3D prints going forward.
    nice work handling all the edge conditions to allow it to form cool surface patterns too!.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад

      Glad it helped!

  • @jruszo
    @jruszo Год назад +4

    I need to tell you mate, this is a very useful and very clever thing. Makes very easy to do a patterned surface for my 3d printing products. Wish I can do features like this. 🙂
    I use onshape to designing for our carpenter department at the moment as a job (3d printing is hobby) and I need to do a few steps same way every time. Like cutting channels into 90 degres boards, then adjust these channels with tolerance and so on. A few things when feature scripts could help me a lot. Started to learning as try to understand the code in scripts other made, but it is a bit hard for me yet. But I really enjoyed all of your videos, so please carry on and do more. Probably (if you have time) can start a feature script writing tutorial video?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      Thanks! Featurescript really is an amazing tool in Onshape but since I didn't have code background prior, the learning curve was quite steep and took many many frustrating hours and lots of kind help from people on the forum to get just about anything working. Now I'm finally getting comfortable enough with it to have fun. I do have hopes of making some of the tutorials that would have helped me starting out, but no idea when I will get to it. It sounds like a perfect tool for the kinds of repetitive workflows you're talking about too.

  • @joncorso6103
    @joncorso6103 Год назад

    Thanks, this is really useful, I just wish there was a setting for 'full hexes only'. For example, at 1:14 you have these little nubs sticking out from the top hexes, and I don't want those. I found the only way to get rid of them is to have the perfect underlying sketch which I found meant having to do everything twice. Use the tool to set up the grid you want, then go in and use that result to set up another sketch you use for the final result. I can't change hex size and spacing because those are precise for the project. Unless I'm just missing something.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I understand the issue, but don't have a perfect workaround for you. Neil Cooke's Fill Feature (linked in the description) might be better as it only does full hexes. I've not tried it, but there could be a clever way to use the move face command twice to get rid of them. First you could move the exterior faces in so that the little edges disappear, then move them back out by the same amount, but I don't get the feeling that solution is all that stable either. The other stable solution is likely to involve some more code. One could, for example, create a feature to follow this one up that finds all faces made by the Grid Extrude feature and deletes ones that are under a certain area or something like that.

    • @joncorso6103
      @joncorso6103 Год назад

      @@ovyl Thanks for the reply. Have to say your tool is much more intuitive than Neil's. Tried his, and couldn't make it do anything, just errors. Think I'll just stick to yours. 😊

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      @@joncorso6103 Thanks for the kind words, but I'll say his is certainly worth the learning curve and I use either one depending on what I'm doing. His is faster to regenerate so for models where that matters most it's my preference.

  • @תכנותצעדצעד
    @תכנותצעדצעד 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you! I am printing parts for a shopping cart trolley and Grid Extrude does almost the entire job for what I palnned. Too bad I didn't know it exists a few days ago when I designed cat-bars...

  • @frankdev
    @frankdev 6 месяцев назад

    This is amazing. Would love it if i could toggle so that only complete shapes were extruded. (like the partial hexes around the border could be removed)

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  5 месяцев назад

      Thanks! That's a cool idea. Probably won't get around to it, but I can see some situations where it'd be handy!

  • @worshaw
    @worshaw Год назад

    OMG this is so nice. I’ve used this and it’s amazing. Subscribing to see what other tools you have.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Right on! Onshape does have a way to publish official versions of custom features too to help people wade through the tons of copies, but it's on the to-do list. For now the best way to find other features from Ovyl is to go to the public section of Onshape and search "Ovyl" which is in the document name for all of them. Some of the features are very fleshed out and productized like this one, and others are made more quickly, but could be handy too.

  • @russelthomson5065
    @russelthomson5065 Год назад

    I managed to figure it out. a possibler upgrade suggestion would be to give the option of changing the boundary width /thickness

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I considered it, but I try to remember that features are all meant to work together, and it's not a big pain to just add a separate Extrude feature set to Thin. The feature UI is already complex and I didn't want to add to it.

  • @sa1htam
    @sa1htam 5 месяцев назад

    Helped me as a noob immensely!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  5 месяцев назад

      love to hear it. Everyone was a noob once!

  • @shawncrocker7037
    @shawncrocker7037 Год назад

    Once again, nail on the head! This type of geometry creation is always awkward to make and even more awkward to edit. This has been such a missing feature.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Thanks, Shawn! I definitely stand by the purpose of it, but I'd love one that's made by a better coder than me. I've already found some funny scenarios I'd love to fix if I have the time.

  • @BROSKIES1209
    @BROSKIES1209 8 месяцев назад +1

    I can't find it

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  8 месяцев назад +1

      it's in the video description

  • @overtone_audio
    @overtone_audio 3 месяца назад

    how do you get that toolbar below on the screen that i see in your links? (Link to Grid Extrude for example)... apologies if this is too beginner a question, i am struggling with things at this level - i see stuff in videos i cannot emulate, and this is one of them.

  • @victorc.l2786
    @victorc.l2786 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. I am new to Onshape, and these tips have helped me do something I thought was complex in an easy way.
    Do you know if there are othres grid patterns like voronoi?

  • @knawedArt
    @knawedArt 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks. New to OnShape and been trying to get something like this worked out. Would there be a method to do alternating rectangle rows? Sort of like a brick wall.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад

      Ah that's a good idea, but not supported currently with this feature

  • @Ma10aS89
    @Ma10aS89 4 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for making this :D

  • @Chad.The.Flornadian
    @Chad.The.Flornadian Год назад

    Is there a way to make it hug a surface contour, like the outside of a curved surface (vase)?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      No not really. It's still just an extrude feature at the end of it, so the results will always be a projection, not a wrap. Here's an example of that, but look into the wrap feature: cad.onshape.com/documents/d1489499c6bfdc52ce5cf32a/w/c544b659a37041d14e810028/e/ce0196e0af870f66119c1727

  • @vasilykandelaki
    @vasilykandelaki 10 месяцев назад

    I can't find this tool even search doesn't show it... have they removed it from the free version, or it was never there?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад +1

      Don't worry, you can access it. Since it's a custom-made feature it's not there by default. You'll have to add it to your toolbar. There are links to this and other features in the description. Follow those and look for a "+" icon to add it.

    • @vasilykandelaki
      @vasilykandelaki 10 месяцев назад

      @@ovyl thank you, its very nice of you to reply and guide an armature. Good luck to you!

  • @Chris-Brown-
    @Chris-Brown- Год назад

    very handy, really needs a speed boost, many small holes takes a while to compute

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Agreed on all of the above, but I have no plans to optimize this one farther, and for some situations, other features/techniques will be better, as outlined in the latter half of the video.

  • @guyrandom6151
    @guyrandom6151 Год назад

    how do you use it to put on curved faces like a vase for example

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад +1

      This one is only for flat stuff. You could use it to extrude up to a face with an offset to get a debossed effect on something that isn't flat, but it couldn't wrap a cylinder well. For that, look into Attractor Pattern, which I also wrote, or Texture by Michael Pascoe.
      Attractor Pattern: cad.onshape.com/documents/ca03eaf542826bb98f6cc90e/w/dda165f92e2ad786bd53d97a/e/9b97d9037f0e0bb481cf6111
      Texture: cad.onshape.com/documents/46897a2d60ade8dbb04077f3/v/fd618404d70d644d45e12f84/e/201138fdd8eee8cfcd2dcac1

  • @mindlessgreen
    @mindlessgreen 8 месяцев назад

    Is it possible to just generate the sketch and leave the extrude part to the user?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  8 месяцев назад

      Not the way it's coded. This one actually is patterning the extruded hexagons, not the hexagon sketch. This is to improve performance (it would make it way slower to actually draw all of the hexagons and extrude them)

  • @tristanfeinstein
    @tristanfeinstein Год назад

    When searching for Grid extrude its not in my tools. Any idea as to why this may be the case?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I'm not sure, but the link to add it to your toolbar is in the video notes. As with all custom features, you'll have to add it to your toolbar.

  • @ianwhaples3837
    @ianwhaples3837 7 месяцев назад

    is there an option for boundary thickness?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  7 месяцев назад

      Not currently, but you could do it without the boundary, then follow it up with a regular Extrude set to Thin mode.

  • @russelthomson5065
    @russelthomson5065 Год назад

    I'm pretty new to Onshape and have spent what feels like half my life trying to design a hexagonal extruded grid. This tool is an incredible feature. How do I get the tool / button into my Onshape when I logon in?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      glad you figured it out!

    • @CK_area_Sports
      @CK_area_Sports Год назад

      Have you figured it out? I've been searching and still haven't figured out how to add this feature.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      @@CK_area_Sports there's a link in the video description. If you're still stuck, check the Onshape help documentation for "Custom Feature" and see how to add them there.

    • @CK_area_Sports
      @CK_area_Sports Год назад

      @@ovyl I appreciate the reply. I just now found a video explaining how to do it. I am so new to Onshape I can barely navigate through the program but I did get it! Thank you so much for the video and sharing this file.

  • @mikehlusak1371
    @mikehlusak1371 2 месяца назад

    Incredible!! A++ thanks!!

  • @ViniciusNegrao_
    @ViniciusNegrao_ Год назад

    I'm still a noob. Can you tell me how to get this script for my document? I couldn't find it on the custom features list

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Sure! The links to this and some other features are in the video description. Follow the instructions from the help docs to get them added. ovyl.onshape.com/help/Content/customfeature.htm?Highlight=custom%20feature

  • @Jirisvejda6
    @Jirisvejda6 5 месяцев назад

    how do I add this to my oneshape?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  5 месяцев назад

      There's a link to the feature in the video description, and you can follow the instructions here to add it cad.onshape.com/help/Content/customfeature.htm?Highlight=custom%20feature

  • @TheBodgerIsGreat
    @TheBodgerIsGreat Год назад

    is there a way to use it on a curved surface?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      in a limited way, yes, but it's still just an extrude feature at the end of it, so the results will always be a projection, not a wrap. Here's an example: cad.onshape.com/documents/d1489499c6bfdc52ce5cf32a/w/c544b659a37041d14e810028/e/ce0196e0af870f66119c1727

    • @TheBodgerIsGreat
      @TheBodgerIsGreat Год назад

      Thank you!

  • @2QRh6g1I
    @2QRh6g1I Год назад

    Love it, great job!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Thank you!

  • @familytollefson1320
    @familytollefson1320 Год назад

    Great tool! 😁
    Having an option for boundary width would be nice too.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      Thanks! I considered a separate boundary width, but figured the feature was already getting complex, and I try to think of any custom feature in the bigger context of the whole feature list. With that in mind, I recommend just doing this one without the border, and following it up with a second Extrude feature in Thin mode for the boundary.

    • @familytollefson1320
      @familytollefson1320 Год назад

      @@ovylThanks. That's exactly what I did for this one.

  • @fahb68
    @fahb68 Год назад

    Works on the mobile app???

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I don't use mobile much, but it ought to work. You can find instructions for adding it here cad.onshape.com/help/Content/customfeature.htm#StepsiOS

  • @harischaudhry6098
    @harischaudhry6098 9 месяцев назад

    Works beautifully on iOS app and free account

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  9 месяцев назад

      I've never tried on mobile. Glad it's working

  • @zakaroonetwork777
    @zakaroonetwork777 Год назад

    Selection Fillet script link please?

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      I added it to the video description.

  • @jeffjackson6358
    @jeffjackson6358 Год назад

    How can I add this to my Onshape? Sorry new Onshape/CAD designer.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  Год назад

      No worries! The link to this (and some other) features are in the video description, and you can learn about adding custom features here in the help docs: cad.onshape.com/help/Content/customfeature.htm?Highlight=custom%20feature

  • @Nutt_Tan
    @Nutt_Tan 5 месяцев назад

    Very useful, thank you.

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  5 месяцев назад

      de nada

  • @SebastianParra
    @SebastianParra 10 месяцев назад

    Genius! Thank you!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад

      Grazie!

  • @jan_hutter
    @jan_hutter 2 месяца назад

    Youre a legend! Really helpfull tool wanted to search how to honeycomb efficient, now thats efficient, just one klick

  • @EmmaRitson
    @EmmaRitson 11 месяцев назад

    thanks for this. found it and had a playuld be useful

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад

      Great to hear!

  • @bibliotek42
    @bibliotek42 10 месяцев назад +1

    Cool!

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  10 месяцев назад

      thanks

  • @johnhumbug5199
    @johnhumbug5199 Год назад +1

    thanks mate

  • @aequanimus63247
    @aequanimus63247 11 месяцев назад

    🙏 THANK YOU 🙏

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад

      You are so welcome

  • @montyrage13
    @montyrage13 Год назад

    Excelent!!!❤

  • @PorteroLegendario-zu8or
    @PorteroLegendario-zu8or 4 месяца назад +1

    makasih

  • @MaximeTurcotte1983
    @MaximeTurcotte1983 Год назад

    Thank you

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  11 месяцев назад

      You're quite welcome

  • @BookOfMorman
    @BookOfMorman 6 месяцев назад

    I love you

    • @ovyl
      @ovyl  6 месяцев назад +1

      it's mutual

  • @littlehills
    @littlehills 8 месяцев назад

    thank you