Do you know, that… ?

Some elements should be drawn in a clever way instead of getting tired…

Let me give you an example: car air inlet

(of course you can imagine anything else with a similar openwork structure).

ps. this example is inspired by a real project, in which I once attended.

If we draw a grid in the sketch, there will be difficulties during boss extrude. Why? Because when you extrude you have to either select dozens of areas / contours…

…or trim the sketch, to create an unambiguous area (no intersecting sketch lines). Therefore, such methods will not work.

Solution.

I am drawing a flat auxiliary element slightly larger than the inlet itself. I draw a grid on the wall of this element (one line bi-directionally offset), I pull it out, merging with this element only. Then I draw a line tilted in the opposite direction and pull it out. Finally, I create a linear pattern for these two features.

Then the hole (inlet) I fill with a solid, keeping the curvature. This block must be disjoint. You can do this by offsetting the surface and thickening it, or using any technique.

Now I'm choosing surgery connect i dale Common – a beautiful grille is created while maintaining a properly profiled front wall.