u/grimlock12

There are multiple ways to skin this cat but I'm asking as a sanity check in case there is a more efficient way to go about it. The task is a tapered hole, in today's project, hexagonal. I don't have a draft angle because I was handed an existing part and I'm working from the calipers. It needs to be 1.65" deep, .138" flat to flat, at the top and .085" at the bottom.

I can extrude, and use the Taper angle feature there, but then I have to break out the trig.

I can extrude and use Draft, but back to trig.

Or I can use a Loft , but that involves creating an offset workplane, a new sketch, making sure all the reference geometry is set to Construction, etc.

Is there a simpler way to do this that I'm overlooking?

I want to create a heatmap based on a mailing list, and I would wager a steak dinner that GIS can do it but that's all I have so far.

I presume that I'll need to translate the addresses associated with each entry on the list into something GIS can recognize. What would that process be called so I can start to look it up?