Tapered Capsule

[nz-pilgrim]

I sometimes need to create belt guards for small machines as in the attached photo. I would envisage the construction variables being 1. Large Cylinder diameter; 2. Small cylinder diameter; 3. Distance between cylinder centres; 4. Height.
I currently have to create this from two cylinders and a sketch part and then group. However that doesn't like the hollowing operation on the group, I get errors. BTW. Thanks for everything you are doing. Layerling is brilliant and getting better all the time.

[henmedia]

@nz-pilgrim, thanks - a belt guard is a good case for it. layerling has a Capsule shape with two equal round ends; I'll give it a second, smaller end: you set the large diameter, the small diameter, the distance between the centres and the height, and the sides run as tangents to both circles. With the small end as large as the big one it stays the capsule you know. It will be in the next update, later today.

It will be an exact body, so the hollow tool works on it directly - that also takes care of the errors you got: a group of two cylinders and a sketch reaches the hollow tool as one merged mesh, and that is where it fails. Edges can be filleted too.

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[henmedia]

@nz-pilgrim It's in 1.57.0. Select a Capsule and set Small End (Diameter) and Centre Distance in the properties. The large end is the capsule's width. Hollow and fillet work on it directly.

[nz-pilgrim]

Fantastic, thanks heaps. I've bought you a coffee. I wish I could support you more but as a pensioner I have limited funds.
Keep up the good work.

[henmedia]

thanks for your support, every bit helps to keep up with the running costs :-)