Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
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I'm working in an assembly and would like to bisect a plane between 2 parallel faces. Can you do this? I know I can measure the distance between the 2 faces and divide by 2, but believe the software should do this within the plane function. In fact, it should bisect between 2 angular faces as well.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000






RE: Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
If you wanting it for mating parts....the "Width" mate works wonders.
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.0 on WinXP SP2
RE: Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
Yeah, I found that out (Width) yesterday. It's very cool functionality for mating.
I needed a plane to mirror a set of fasteners. I usually don't do this, but the part was an import from an IGES file which is a dumb solid. We have only basic SW and no Featureworks to use feature recognition.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
In general, I prefer geometric approach to bisection over formulas.
RE: Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
Sounds like a great work around, but seems like a lot of work to do something so simple. Thanks for your input, sir.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: Bisect-2 Planes/Faces
If you need to add sketches to define or control a datum plane, do it.
If you need to define two surfaces to get their intersection, do it (and then use "delete bodies" to clean up).
If you need to draw two sketches to combine in a third, do it.
I always liked the way you said that. Its not a work around. Its the way it is. If parts in assems are subject to change, more often than not mating with planes defined from sketches is the way to go. Nothing every blows up, especially in context stuff. The centerline is God, use it.
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