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Remove intersected body parts

Remove intersected body parts

Remove intersected body parts

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I created a simple extrusion and an extruded cut inside it., then I created an off center and tilted axis and made a circular pattern out of them:



Now I want to remove all the intersections inside the new formed body, keeping only the new formed perimeter.

How can I do this in SW2006?

Thanks

RE: Remove intersected body parts

Have you looked into the combine feature?
I will look into it more tomorrow.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: Remove intersected body parts

The simplest way is probably to offset your outer surfaces to a thickness of zero.  Delete the solid body.  Thicken your offset surface.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe trumps reason.

RE: Remove intersected body parts

How about deleting the extruded cut, keeping the pattern and shelling?

RE: Remove intersected body parts

A star for dgowans.  I think he's got the solution with the lowest feature count.

Another alternative is to pattern the inside surface and trim the solid before patterning it.

-b

RE: Remove intersected body parts

If the axis of rotation is offset & tilted, a circular pattern would create a non-uniform perimeter thickness ... no matter what shapes the base and cut extrusions were.

The Combine function would be the simplest method.

cheers
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RE: Remove intersected body parts

The product you created does not have a flat top or bottom, and I don't know if you will leave them like that, or will add another step to cut them flat. If they are supposed to be flat, then a loft would work.  Loft then shell.

 http://livedigital.com/content/441099/u86412

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

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