Can Solidworks do this kind of surfacing?
Can Solidworks do this kind of surfacing?
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I cannot make this shape in solidedge and am trying to find a program that can. I think it needs to be made from surfaces first before being thickened to a solid. Hopefully my image will be attached where you can see the problem of how to make the pattern of curved grooves on the periphery of the wavy plate and how to blend them to the wavy plate. I am trying to get an idea on whether solidworks can even do this before I spend time trying it in a demo. I think Rhino can do this kind of surface blending but then I would have to import it and could not make parametric changes in the assembly. Thanks






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I would actaully model it as a solid (not a surface) and then shell it out.
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Can't really see your image to well - its small and grainy. Regardless, in my experience as long as a shape can physically exist it can be modelled in SolidWorks. It often comes down to technique in acheiving the desired shape. Surface creation techniques allows you to more manually construct geometry one surface at a time if need be. Solid techniques are actually building surfaces for you in the background and often give you less control over the mulitple surfaces that are create automatically. This is true of any the SolidWorks/SolidEdge/Inventor/ProE/Alibre modelers.
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Whether surface modelling is required or not would mostly depend on the details of the geometry of the ridges around the outside diameter.
Lots of "hired guns" in the SW world could do this. Perhaps you can find the same to help you in SE-world.
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Here is an Solid Edge screen shot of what I have done.
1.revolve wavy plate as surface
2.sketch peripheral curve and extrude as surface.
3.derive path from intersection of surfaces 1 & 2
4.place plane normal to path
5.sketch peripheral curve profile on plane
This is where I am stuck.How to make the peripheral curve surface and combine it in the wavy plate then pattern it around the edge so all the waves combine to make one continuous form.
I am not expecting anyone to tell me how to do this only if it can be done. Thanks.
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One recommendation I would make is to work on one side of your material only. Either work completely in surfaces and thicken at the end or start with your revolve being way thicker than it needs to be and cutting/adding material as needed to generate your complete top surface. Thicken to get a part of uniform thickness.
You can do it by starting with the revolved solid but you'll devote a lot of effort to maintaining the correct thickness throughout the development of the model.
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The wavy portion of the plate should be modeled as a revolved solid as JCRoberts first stated. I think what has everyone confused is the detail for the outer edge. It appears to be crimped feature with a non-radial pattern to it (correct?). This could be done with a sweep to form the crimp ridge and then a circular pattern around the rest of the part. Two features and one pattern - and parametric solids rather than surfaces. Not bad at all really.
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What version of Edge are you running? And what aspect with Edge are you having a problem getting it to work?
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I am on V20 of Solid Edge and have to allow I don't know everything about surfacing so it may be that SE can do this. I should probably post to the SE forum as well. Guess its just reflex to blame the software when you cant do something.
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I'm thinking in SW, a wave profile revolved as a solid, then add your edge ridge as a separate solid body, followed with the Indent tool. Once this feature is created, a revolved pattern should get you there.
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I don't know SE, but I would be willing to bet you can do this as a solid just like you can in SW.
Using surfacing in SW is more complex then just solids and would use up more memory... Use the KISS Theory... its much easier!!!
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I can't seem to make out if the edge is straight but it shows that its more than capable
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