Extruding from cylinder surface?
Extruding from cylinder surface?
(OP)
Hi all
Most of you are probably going to call me an idiot for asking this.
How do you create an extrude on a curved surface?
I've created a cylinder, shelled it out, now I want to create an outlet on the curved surface. It's just a pressure vessel with outlets that I'm trying to create.
I've tried extrude boss, extrude surface, tried inserting new planes.
What am I doing wrong? It's very frustrating.
Thanks
WF
Most of you are probably going to call me an idiot for asking this.
How do you create an extrude on a curved surface?
I've created a cylinder, shelled it out, now I want to create an outlet on the curved surface. It's just a pressure vessel with outlets that I'm trying to create.
I've tried extrude boss, extrude surface, tried inserting new planes.
What am I doing wrong? It's very frustrating.
Thanks
WF






RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
I was able to get the outlet on to the surface by extruding a second flat surface on the end of the cylinder, and using that as a reference direction for the extrude. It's not a very accurate way of doing it though.
There must be an easier way to do it.
WF
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
Alternate Method 1;
Create the outlet from a central plane of the cylinder before creating the shell.
Alternate Method 2;
Create the individual components of the pressure vessel, and then place them in an assy ... per the real life scenario (assuming the vessel is not being cast).
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
Zip and attach what you were able to do here. Someone will show you the easy way with your dataset. Best way to learn. We go to all of this trouble to communicate our designs with geometry - lets use the geometry to communicate.
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
I've managed to create the outlet using reference geometry, but I'm having a few other issues.
I would be grateful if you could explain the following.
1. How to you make the outlet on the cylinder normal to the surface.
2. How do you create another outlet, say at 45 degree's (either direction) horizontally to the first outlet.
Thanks for your help
WF
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
Thanks for the files but my SWx won't open them, it say they are from a future version.
WF
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
2) Use the Circular Pattern function.
I suggest you work through the tutorials supplied in the Help file section.
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
But as it is going to be an assembly in real world, I would suggest you to go for assembly. Create the two parts separately and then assemble them.
Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP4.1
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
I've done what you said. I created the parts and mated them together.
Also did it by using a reference plane and the circular pattern.
Eltron,
Thanks for the file, but it seems that my SWx won't open the file, says it's from a future version! I'm still on SW 2009 Sp0. The service packs are just to big for me to download.
I won't be upgrading until SW2011 is available
thanks
WF
RE: Extruding from cylinder surface?
Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP5.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion