Combining Sweeps ?
Combining Sweeps ?
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Hi All, I am new to this forum and I am sure this question has been asked a million times, but I have not been able to find the answer in the archives.
I am having problems combining swept solid bodies together. I am building a simple hand grip for injection molding. There are three swept profiles that comprise the grip. The backstrap, bridge, and finger groove. I swept the two outside bodies first, and then used edges of those bodies as the path and guide curves so that the center sweep makes full contact with both outside bodies along the entire path. However, the mating surfaces between the three sweeps have irregularities that prevent me from merging or combining the bodies. How do I fix these gaps in the mating surfaces so that I can creat one solid body? I cannot build the ribs until I get this solid. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I am having problems combining swept solid bodies together. I am building a simple hand grip for injection molding. There are three swept profiles that comprise the grip. The backstrap, bridge, and finger groove. I swept the two outside bodies first, and then used edges of those bodies as the path and guide curves so that the center sweep makes full contact with both outside bodies along the entire path. However, the mating surfaces between the three sweeps have irregularities that prevent me from merging or combining the bodies. How do I fix these gaps in the mating surfaces so that I can creat one solid body? I cannot build the ribs until I get this solid. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.






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You can knit the surfaces after joining them, plug the remaining top and bottom holes, knit with Try To Form Solid selected as an option and then shell to your desired thickness later.
Jeff Mowry
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I initially built this grip with surfaces, but couldn't thicken the surface. The "Check feature would alway reveal 1 "Open Surface". If I fixed the open surface that was pointed out and ran check again, there would aways be 1 more "Open Surface". I finally gave up and tried this method. If I can't find a solution, I guess I will just loft it. I was trying top avoid lofting because this method would be much faster to change and maintain tangency of all surfaces.
This image depicts the guide curves and path.
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I personally would have made the entire outside with surfaces, then made it a solid and shelled it out to create the shape.
-b
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Also, did you create Composite Curves to act as your Guide Curves for the sweep or not? I'd recommend using Composite Curves over mere edges or sketch entities--much better results.
And like I said before and bvanhiel just said, creating all this as a surface first and then converting to solid should be a simpler route. I'd recommend trying this with surfaces with the above methods and seeing what happens. Also, consider creating your loft between your surfaces more of a perpendicular direction from your surface edges (or all of it as a single loft or sweep at one time).
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.