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Best practice question - moulded plastic rib structures

Best practice question - moulded plastic rib structures

Best practice question - moulded plastic rib structures

(OP)
Hi All,

A pick your brains question to see if anyone out there does this a better way than me...

I model a lot of rib structures for injection-moulded parts (so lots of 'X' shape ribs intersecting on the inside of a shelled component).  Often the ribs are disrpted with lots of screw bosses, snap fits, other features etc...  

I usually find the 'rib' command doesn't work for me, as often the shape won't be fully bounded (SW doesn't look at the sketch line length) or some other issue preventing it working.  Extruding lines as thin features could work SO well, but for some reason SW won't allow multiple separate thin extrudes in one feature (very frustrating).  Extruding ribs as closed 2D profiles is by far the most reliable, but takes absolutely ages.

Anyone tell me if I'm missing something?

Cheers,

Simon

RE: Best practice question - moulded plastic rib structures

Library Features?

RE: Best practice question - moulded plastic rib structures

(OP)
possibly.....but I'm talking here about maybe 50-200 ribs, all requiring the same width, draft angles etc....but with different lengths / angles etc...

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