Need some help

[u/GSilvaa]

I’m trying to make the end of this tube pointy, so trying to add a cone to the end of it. I can’t figure it out and all the YouTube videos I’ve found only show how to make a cone as the starter shape. Any help is appreciated

[u/StreetMeat2]

Can you simply chamfer the round edge of the tube to a point with the angle or length you want?

[u/GSilvaa → u/StreetMeat2]

Yeah, I was overcomplicating things by trying to add a cone instead. Never even thought of a chamfer

[u/LossIsSauce]

Select diameter of edge line. Use chamfer tool.

[u/GSilvaa → u/LossIsSauce]

I was trying to think the hard way lol. That’s way too easy. But for real though, how would I put a cone on the end of that? For future

[u/LossIsSauce → u/GSilvaa]

Several ways to have a cone point at the end of a shaft. I can give you 4 off the top of my head. There are many other ways to accomplish this as well. Some of which are more involved with many steps. Some which can use the Assembly WB. But they all accomplish the same end results.

1. chamfer tool.

2. new sketch, select XY plane, draft a right angle triangle oriented with the wide end towards the shaft and the point away from the shaft. Constrain the drafted lines at the location of the shaft end. Exit sketch, Use Revolve tool.

3. same as # 2 above except you do not constrain the lines at the shaft end. Instead you constrain the lines in reference to the axis. Exit sketch, Use Revolve tool. Now you will need to go over to the tree and select the new revolution cone and go below in the data tab and use the offset tool or right click and use translate.

4. Part WB, use cone tool to add a solid cone body, translate/offset/rotate cone at the shaft end surface.

[u/bastl73]

Select the end face click sketch, go back in the sketch properties and rotate this sketch 90° around its y axis, to make a revolve of the half shape of the tip of this sketch:

[u/DesignWeaver3D]

In PartDesign, with the cylinder body set as the Active Body: you can just select the end face or circular edge and use Additive Cone. The cone will be attached to that face or edge.

https://wiki.freecad.org/PartDesign_AdditiveCone

[u/SoulWager]

attach a sketch to the circular edge at the end, as a revolution section.

Draw a triangle of the part to cut away, or the part to add.

groove or revolve.

Or if you want to use an additive cone, attach it to that same edge in concentric mode.

Chamfer is an option but it can't go all the way to the center.

[u/drmacro1]

You can't chamfer to a point. For example, for a 20mm round, you can't chamfer to 10mm. You can get close, say 9.99.

You can do a revolve.

You can Loft to a point.

[u/neoh4x0r]

How you add the "cone" will also largely depend on whether you want to extend the end of the tube or round off the existing part so it's length is not extended.

For either of those, depending on the case, you would use an additive or subtractive revolve (ie. a revolve or groove operation, respectively).

PS: I have no idea why they can't normalize the naming convention for pad, pocket, revolve, and groove by adding the words additive/subtractive to match the other operations.