×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Mating a solidworks part with a Rhino3D part...how?

Mating a solidworks part with a Rhino3D part...how?

Mating a solidworks part with a Rhino3D part...how?

(OP)
I have an helicopter cyclic controller model that I'm working on in SolidWorks.  I have had to create the textured grip part in Rhino3D as a separate item.  Does anyone have any idea of how I can mate the solidworks part with the rhino part?  I've imported the rhino part into SW, but the only mate that is allowed is Lock.

Any suggestions?


Shawn Cherewick
Protowerx Design Inc.

RE: Mating a solidworks part with a Rhino3D part...how?

How did you import the Rhino part? Which format from Rhino?

Have you saved it as a SW part?
If you save it as a SW part, you should be able to create and use ref planes and axes.

Is it an imported body or imported surfaces?
Can you use the Feature Recognition module in SW?
 

RE: Mating a solidworks part with a Rhino3D part...how?

(OP)
Hi CorBlimeyLimey,

I just opened a Rhino .3dm part in SW and saved as a SW part.

This part is curved in two directions... nice, huh?

FeatureWorks will not allow me to recognize because it says the 'features are not supported by FeatureWorks", then it goes on to list Surface-Imported1, Surface-Imported2, etc...

So, to answer your final question - it's imported surfaces.

I'm going to play around with adding some axis to the models, you may have given me the solution... but for now... dinner with the family.

I'll let you know how I make out.

Shawn.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources