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AVC_CrossPiece plugin for AutoCAD and BricsCAD
AVC_CrossPiece plugin for AutoCAD and BricsCAD
To make the notches in intersecting parts (3D solids) to connect crosswise.
To make the notches in intersecting parts (3D solids) to connect crosswise.
Using this plugin, you can quickly make the notches in intersecting parts (3D solids) to connect them crosswise. If you are designing a plywood construction, furniture, puzzle-toys, and other structures made of flat parts, you probably had to make grooves in detail to connect them crosswise, one piece across the other. The program will make all the necessary modifications of solids in one click.
In addition, the plugin can:
Make a gap between the parts so that they are easily inserted into the slots.
Make a single click immediately on a lot of Cross-Pieces. Simply select all parts, and the program will find all of their intersections.
To select the right direction. If the items can be pulled in both directions, then the program cannot choose the direction that you like. In this case, you can use the "Inverse".
The plugin can work with 3D solids only. It does not work with Meshes, Surfaces, and Blocks. The form details can be arbitrarily complex, but they are to be part of the sheet material. Details may be crossed at any angle.
Read about downloading and installing the program here.
To run the plugin, you will have to register an account and top up your account balance or receive bonuses.
Then you can activate one of the licenses:
Unlimited license - 50 EUR. Free updates for 1 year.
The trial period is 20 days.
Easy cross-piece
The ends of the parts intersect. The program cannot determine the direction of the cross-piece. You can tell it by moving one piece slightly to the side extension.
Shelves and ribs made uniform. The program makes an arbitrary cross-piece direction. To help the program move the ribs to 0.001. This is enough to understand in which way the program can do cross-piece.
Cross-piece with gap 0, 1, 2, 5.
(The video shows an old version of the command, which did not yet use the Backlash option.)
Making sets of crosses with a single click. Using the "Inverse" option.
Сommand Cross-Piece (CRS)
Сommand Cross-Piece (CRS)
You can choose the items before the Cross-Piece command call. But if you want to call a program options, you must first deselect all objects and then call the CRS. You can select two or more solids simultaneously. The selection could accidentally get any foreign objects - it is not scary. The program will only work with Solid. In the process of selecting the items, you see 3 options:
INverse - this option allows you to change the direction of pulling out parts from the slot. To be specific, first, select 1 solid, enter this option, and press enter. You will be prompted to choose the second solid.
GAp – the program will ask for the size of the gap that must be left between the parts for free sliding. It is recommended to use a gap in cases where you are not sure that your production will receive material of exactly the thickness you have drawn. For example, chipboard suppliers allow themselves a spread in sheet thickness from 15.8 to 16.5 mm. In this case, a Gap of 0.3 mm is recommended. This gap will be made on each side of the parts. Thus, the cutout will be 0.6 mm wider than the part. But the gap is not made at the stop point in the direction of inserting the parts. There is a Backlash setting for this.
BAcklash – this option also creates a gap between the parts, but only at the ends of the cutouts, where one part abuts another, only in the direction of sliding the parts into each other, but not in the lateral directions. This will allow you to slide the parts deeper into the cross. Backlash is usually used to compensate for the diameter of the cutting cutter used to make parts on a CNC milling machine. The Backlash is made on both parts 2 times smaller than the number you entered; you indicate the distance you need between the parts.
The program is designed for only a limited number of components and connection methods. The main surface of the parts should be flat; the ends of the parts should not overlap with each other.
In some cases, the geometry of solids is so complex that further processing becomes impossible and AutoCAD generates a GeneralModelinglFail error. This is not a mistake of my program. You can try to redraw such solids anew. In BricsCAD there is a convenient _dmAudit command, which can fix problems inside the solids. In AutoCAD, theoretically there is a similar _Solidedit _Body _cLean command, but it works only with one solid, and rarely can something be fixed.
When the dimensions of the intersecting parts coincide, the program does not understand which direction to put the parts. It happens; if you bring the ends close, then you will see that one part surrounds the other from all sides. Parts with complex shapes (not flat, not exactly matching) very often fail. In such cases, before calling the command, simply slide one of the pair of parts in the direction of disassembly of the crosspiece, at least a fraction of a millimeter, so that their ends do not coincide and the program will work without failures.
Program always set History=Non for all solids.
Settings are stored in the Windows registry under the current user.
Follow the messages on the command line. There may be program messages.
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