revolve feature
revolve feature
(OP)
i am attempting to revolve a feature about an axis. sw gives me an error message that it can't do it because the feature touches the axis. there is no other simple way of doing this. any way to get around the problem?






RE: revolve feature
Scott Baugh, CSWP

Theophilus (Mechanical)
Does your feature move past the axis? If so, that would be a problem. (Is it a feature and not a sketch?)
koyote5 (Mechanical)
(OP)
SW 2003
SBaugh (Mechanical)
Are you using some Construction geometry for the axis? If so, then make a colinear relationship to the sketch line and the Construction Geometry.
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RE: revolve feature
Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
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RE: revolve feature
and no no feature crosses the axis, but two lines border on it
RE: revolve feature
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

Dennyd (Mechanical)
koyote5,
rporter (Industrial)
Do you have 2 lines ending at the same point on the axis? If so I have found that solidworks dosnt like that.
Theophilus (Mechanical)
As rporter said, two points hitting the axis at one point won't work. This is not so much a SW problem as a logic problem. You have matter coming to a point of no thickness with no space of non-matter. It doesn't work--like dividing one by zero. A tiny gap or a tiny length between the points will solve this.
3DVision Technologies
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: revolve feature
Can you show us your sketch? A picture is worth 1k words. This is probably very easy for us to spot the problem if we could see it.
RE: revolve feature
RE: revolve feature
(If that's what's going on in your case.)
Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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