I think I got it though there may be a better way, I extended the line from the center to the inside wall to the plane where the ellipse is drawn to dimension the ellipse, then made a .002 x .527 ellipse on the centerline and did a cut loft through. Not sure if that's the best way but it seems to have worked or is at least very close. Any suggestions to make it better are appreciated.I'm trying to model a tube with a laser cut profile through the side. The tube OD is 1.125 with an .035 wall and I need a .527 hole through. To get the .527 dimension the laser would need to cut an ellipse .527 x .589, how can that be done.
the wrap works well, I just needed to calculate the ellipse dimensions first and the cut is normal to the surface, just what I needed.My first thought was to use the wrap tool. I'm pretty sure V26 has it:
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If you don't have that tool available, then maybe a midplane revolve cut, and some fillets. With the midplane revolve, 53.7 degrees got me an arc length of .527 on the outside of the tube. I had to play around with the fillets though, as it wanted to throw some errors:
It's amazing the different ways to use the surface commands.I would either model this via Nate's suggestion or by using thicken surface.
and make sure to Hide the surface when done so the hole pattern is viewable.Make sure you have surface visibility turned on View Tab > Reference Display > Toggle surfaces.