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Overlapping bosses
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Overlapping bosses

Overlapping bosses

(OP)
I am currently modeling a manifold which has a series of drafted bosses that must overlap slightly. I can not pattern the seed with either linear pattern or with sketch driven pattern. They show in the preview but won't execute. Is there a way to force the completion of this command?

     Walter SW2008 XP64

RE: Overlapping bosses

Maybe try creating the linear pattern before adding the draft.

RE: Overlapping bosses

Yeah, I generally have no success in getting draft to work in patterns.  Draft afterward if possible.  If that causes problems, see if you can create your boss (and draft) as a non-connected body (two bodies in your part--the part itself and the boss) and then pattern the bodies.  Use the Join tool to rejoin the multiple bodies into a single body.

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

RE: Overlapping bosses

(OP)
Thanks to both of you. Yup, I tried it and adding the draft afterwards does the trick. I just wonder why it has to be done in that sequence. I would prefer being able to pre-draft. In fact the tapered bosses in my manifold were actually done as revolves.

RE: Overlapping bosses

Finisher,
Try adding the draft as part of the boss as opposed to a second feature. I sometimes have the same problem and have noticed it may have to do with when the feature was selected. Also try adding the draft in a second pattern. I have used this on fillets, when I experience the same problem.

Adam

RE: Overlapping bosses

SolidWorks seems to have difficulty keeping good track of faces--so my guess is that patterning features nearly always gets the Draft feature lost for this reason.  I don't recall ever seeing Draft pattern appropriately, which causes a lot of tree clutter when doing several patterns of several drafted features.  Annoying.  Glad it worked.

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

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