11:28 <ghane> ddevault: when creating a new workplane you can either use a point, in which case the cooridnate axes are used for the plane or select a point and two lines, if you add more construction lines to your original sketch I think you could do that

11:29 <ddevault> I did add a few more construction lines but I can't seem to get a plane which is tangent to the cylinder

11:29 <ghane> otherwise you could just create one spoke that aligns with a plane (and is tangent to the cylinder) and revolve it

11:29 <ddevault> for example, if you look at this model

11:30 <ghane> sorry not revolve "new group step and repeat rotating"

11:30 <ddevault> if I select the nearest point, and the two lines across the cylinder at either end of the line through the middle, I would assume I get a workplane tangent to the cylinder

11:30 <ddevault> but nope

11:30 <ddevault> ah actually that line is not tangent

11:30 <ddevault> but I did create more construction lines which were tangent to no avail

11:30 <ddevault> lemme play with it some more

11:31 <ghane> :)

11:31 <ddevault> another solution that occured to me this morning is to just add spokes which run the full length of the cylinder and then carve out pegs with a difference drawn over top

11:33 <ddevault> so here's another example: https://l.sr.ht/JedG.png

11:33 <ddevault> if I choose the point on the cylinder nearest the viewer, and the two lines of the reference cuboid that form a tangent plane, I don't get a tangent workspace

11:37 <ghane> that sounds strange, but if you select the point nearest to the viewer in that case you should be able to get a new workplane aligned to the coordinate axis that should be tangent?

11:37 <ddevault> aha https://l.sr.ht/-VNY.png

11:37 <ddevault> I was able to do this by creating a workplane from the point and two perpendicular lines on the tangent face of the reference cuboid

11:37 <ghane> ah, you selected parallell lines?

11:38 <ddevault> yeah

11:38 <ddevault> what was that you were saying about step repeating? can I repeat this cylinder on 6 sides?

11:38 <ddevault> messed with it but not sure what things to select to get the appropriate configuration

11:41 <ddevault> got it https://l.sr.ht/1119.png

11:41 <ddevault> thanks ghane!

11:42 <ghane> ddevault: ah you were faster than I was :)

11:42 <ghane> nice

11:45 <ddevault> solvespace is a wonderful tool, really appreciate the work y'all do here

12:02 <ddevault> wut https://l.sr.ht/0nPn.png

12:11 <ddevault> uh

12:11 <ddevault> the outer face of my core cylinder appears to have disappeared

12:11 <ddevault> and an inner face of this spoke attachment is also missing

12:11 <ddevault> the fuck

12:26 <ddevault> simplified it, got here: https://l.sr.ht/jpne.png

12:28 <ddevault> I think what I needed is assembly, not union

12:28 <ddevault> not sure why though

12:33 <ddevault> this whole part is eventually going to be diff'd out of a larger cylinder

12:33 <ddevault> hope that works

12:36 <ghane> Oh, yes that happens sometimes... the solver calculates something incorrect, think it usually happens when curved surfaces are intersecting in some odd way

12:37 <ghane> a workaround (which might hurt the resolution) is if you select the mesh in the property browser and check "force NURBS surfaces to triangle mesh"

12:38 <ddevault> I got my model working now without a workaround, by using an assembly extrusion rather than a union

12:38 <ddevault> no complaints from solvespace https://l.sr.ht/O8nE.png

12:38 <ghane> ah yes that works too

12:39 <ddevault> one weird degree of freedom in the rotate group, not really sure what that's about

12:56 <ddevault> okay, so I can't really figure this out

12:56 <ddevault> given this part: https://l.sr.ht/PYzo.png

12:56 <ddevault> how do I subtract it from a larger cylinder

13:01 <ghane> I think the easiest way is to create a new file with the larger cylinder

13:01 <ddevault> then?

13:01 <ghane> Then link it using New group linking / assemling file (Shift-I)

13:02 <ghane> and use boolean to subtract (if I am not mistaken, I only have Solvespace 2.3 on this laptop)

13:06 <ddevault> that almost works, but I get some weirdness

13:06 <ddevault> https://l.sr.ht/ZGN5.png

13:06 <ddevault> I get some missing faces and the cap of the cylinder does not subtract from the other cylinder

13:09 <ddevault> I would also like to get rid of the degree of freedom in my rotate group but no clue what causes it

13:09 <ghane> yes, I think that missing faces is the same (rounding?) error... try force triangle mesh for it

13:11 <ghane> not sure what that degree of freedom could be

13:11 <ddevault> does not really fix it

13:11 <ddevault> just makes it differently broken

13:11 <ddevault> w/o triangle mesh: https://l.sr.ht/XL3k.png with: https://l.sr.ht/acd0.png

13:12 <ddevault> I also noticed that exporting the wheel model as an STL brings up errors about edges

13:12 <ddevault> so the problem may be there first and foremost

13:16 <ddevault> these are the "problematic edges" https://l.sr.ht/EmSU.png

13:17 <ddevault> I think I'm running into these problems https://solvespace.readthedocs.io/en/latest/issues.html

13:17 <ddevault> but the suggested workarounds don't seem to do much for me

13:21 <ddevault> figured out how to get rid of that dof btw

13:21 <ddevault> needed to constrain an angle of one of the copies

13:28 <ddevault> posted my model here: https://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=4901

13:44 <ghane> It seems you have redundant constraints on that one?

13:45 <ddevault> not according to my solvespace

13:45 <ddevault> version 3.1

13:45 <ddevault> https://l.sr.ht/A03C.png

13:45 <ghane> Yes, I should check later when using correct version :)

15:23 <ddevault> well

15:23 <ddevault> remade the model from scratch and got it to work

15:23 <ddevault> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

15:27 <ghane> haha ok

15:32 <ddevault> finished my part, s'all good

15:32 <ddevault> many thanks

15:33 <ghane> great, happy to help

15:33 <ddevault> ten points if you can guess what it's for https://l.sr.ht/1zGb.png

15:37 <ghane> not really from the model... a handle for turning something? (faucet related based on the filename)

15:39 <ddevault> yeah, it fits over the handle on my kitchen faucet to provide more leverage so this blasted dutch water pressure doesn't soak my kitchen every time I turn it on

15:40 <ghane> :D

15:40 <ghane> Have you very high pressure there?

15:40 <ddevault> yeah

15:40 <ddevault> below sea level after all

15:40 <ghane> ah true