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Tips for closing open contours in a sketch?

Tips for closing open contours in a sketch?

Tips for closing open contours in a sketch?

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Does anyone have a quick way of closing a lot of open contours in a sketch.  Basically what's happening is, I have a lot of parts in autocad which I'm making into 3d models in SW.  The parts are pulley's so what I do is bring a cross section of the pulley into SW then revolve the sketch to create the solid.  But the sketch I paste in from Autocad is a lot of small line segments which aren't all connected.  Currently I go around to each line segment in SW and close the is up by merging the points.  This takes a while to do if there are a lot of line segments.  Does anyone know a quicker way?

SW 2007 sp 2.2

RE: Tips for closing open contours in a sketch?

Look into purchasing GearTrax (http://www.camnetics.com/GearTrax.htm), and remodel the parts. It's the best $700 you'll ever spend if you work with gear on a regular basis.

How much time have/will you spend merging sketch segments?

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RE: Tips for closing open contours in a sketch?

You could try the Repair Sketch tool.

It is usually quicker and safer (more accurate) to redraw the profile, rather than try and fix it.

cheers

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