Help with Drilling Holes in an Object

 From:  Michael Gibson
5130.19 In reply to 5130.10 
Hi YHWH_777, thanks for posting the example file.

It is possible to flow what you are showing in that example file - you would need to form the target surface as a single surface by making a longer single-segment profile curve that you revolve. Then the result would look like this:



I think that's not what you are really looking for, but it's basically what you are actually asking to create with that flat pattern having the same 12 holes in its upper area as it does in the lower area. As you can see as the pattern nears the tip of the shape where the surface collapses down to a point, the horizontal surface area becomes smaller and smaller and so it follows that the 12 circles in your pattern get squashed down more and more as you approach that area.

So you probably don't actually want to map a totally regular/uniform 2D pattern like you show in the plane there, shown in 2D the pattern that you seem to actually want would have a smaller number of larger ovoid-ish shapes for the pieces that were in the shrinking surface area zone.

It's probably easier for you to instead place cylinders as the cutting objects instead of trying to map a 2D pattern like that.

- Michael
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