cut\ with surface in SW
cut\ with surface in SW
(OP)
I am trying to use cut\with surface to chop off a part of my object. You need to select a surface/plane where you wanna cut your part according to this surface/plane. I am not able to select this or these surfaces. I click on them but they dont get selected and nothing proceeds. ???
OR if you know any other way to cut off a part of an object(in 3D)?
Thanks for your help,






RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
It's a tube passing through an almost semi-sphere's surface, the tube is tangent and not normal to the surface. I need to cut off the part of tube inside of the semi-sphere. There are more than one surface due to the geometry constrain and are filleted. It is not complex, just a tube/pipe inside the semi-sphere.
Hope described it well,
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
The cutting tool has to be an actual surface (zero thickness) or plane, not just the face of a part.
If you are trying to do this from within an assy, you need to be in edit mode of the part to be cut, and then create a zero-offset surface from the 'cutting' part.
An alternative is to extrude the tube using the Up To Surface option.
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Hey CorBlimeyLimey,
I did try to extrude as 'Up To Surface', but since it's up to a semi-sphere surface (and not a flat sort of surface/plane) the error given is: "Unable to create this feature because it would result in zero-thickness geometry." As a trial I created a flat surface and let it extrude, I did work out but when it comes to a curved (sphere) surface it does not proceed. ???
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Sweet! I didnt know I could post the file,
I just uploaded it as it was in SW 2010 version, if you cant open it or there is any other preferred way to post it please let me know, ..and/or any other question,
Thanks alot,
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Thanks a lot, but can I ask how you did that?
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Thanks for the cap, and for my filter(I uploaded)I need to create 40 micron porous on its walls all around. I used APPEARANCE feature then MESH to create approximate diameter holes/porous on the surface/wall but I am not sure if that's the way it's supposed to be. I might encounter a problem when running the flow simulation.
Appreciate your comments,
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Any idea??
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
Eric
RE: cut\ with surface in SW
OK then, I would say any (the finest possible) porosity/holes that I can create on the surfaces in one operation???