Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
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First off I am very new to solidworks so bear with me, so what i am trying to do is create a building that is going to be blown apart in FLACS model. Crucial to this is that each individual block be part of the model. So i Started by building a single brick and making an assembly out of a group of these bricks, stacked properly. I have already created a solid wall with bricks stacked ontop of each other. Now what i want to do is go through and cut out holes in the walls for windows and doors. My question is what is the correct way to do this? I have been using extrude cut to remove the parts of the wall nessasry to fit a door frame and such in. However at later stages when im trying to move all the already cut walls together in a new assembly to create the building, all hell breaks loose and some windows and doors stay but others disapear and then i get errors about certain sections not rebuilding correctly, or mates that i used to connect the walls have strange errors. Is there a better way to do this? Or am i just being foolish trying to do this in solidworks?






RE: Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
My sister is an architect. She hates people like you.
I do quarter section views by drawing an assembly-level sketch and doing an extruded cut. I do not rip everything apart afterwards, although I do use the SolidWorks Explode.
Are you creating a picture, or are you doing some kind of engineering analysis? If you are creating a picture, sketch and extrude-cut probably will work for you. If you are doing some kind of analysis, SolidWorks probably is the wrong software.
JHG
RE: Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
No its not for a picture, we actually already have a very detailed picture drawing. This is a much more simplified version that we are using for a vapor cloud explosion analysis. Knowing that is there any other program that anyone would recommend for this?
RE: Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
RE: Extrude Cuts of Multiple parts in an assembly
See the attached file
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)