I'm trying out AutoCad to see how easy it is to work with (previously I have used infinidi but it can't do what I want) to try and evaluate whether it's worth buying
what I'm after is to take a design I've made in Illustrator:
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and turn it into a cylinder:
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But instead of applying the pattern as a surface, have it with depth.
I have a tube modeled in AutoCAD that is 1.5" OD and 1.25" ID. Along with it, I have a piece of flat 2D geometry representing a pattern to be cut into it.
Is there a way to either wrap the geometry around the tube and extrude out the shapes, or a way to extrude the geometry to the correct thickness and wrap it into a 1.5" OD tube?
I am unable to flat pattern the cylinder. Also, is it possible to rotate the XZ and YZ plane by 5 degrees ?
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