Trim with untrimmed surfaces
Trim with untrimmed surfaces
(OP)
In Autodesk Inventor there is a tool called Sculpt that allows trimming (or filling) of areas without the need to have trimmed and knitted surface (can pick any number of untrimmed surface and workplanes and select to remove or add bounded material).
Is there a way to do this in SolidWorks (refer to attached images).
Is there a way to do this in SolidWorks (refer to attached images).






RE: Trim with untrimmed surfaces
here is SWx method I'm using requiring trimmed and knitted surface.
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RE: Trim with untrimmed surfaces
I can do this with a Split/Combine and Delete Body in SW.
The usual rules for analytic and algorithmic surfaces/faces apply.
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RE: Trim with untrimmed surfaces
Did you post to the wrong thread?
CSWP
RE: Trim with untrimmed surfaces
As indicated by kellnerp - Sculpt does a bunch of steps at once without having to trim the surfaces.
See the attached (roughly equivalent) feature trees.
I was trying to discover if there was a hidden technique in SWx that I wasn't aware of.
RE: Trim with untrimmed surfaces
I can post some *.sldprt files if you think you have a better technique, but not sure if you can open them since they were created in educational version.
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In SW it is a few more steps. But it can be done and it is an expensive operation so is not done a whole lot by most people. SW has been in "feature wars" with Autodesk for a long time, and this has detracted from them spending time on debugging and performance improvement. Does inventor give you any idea of how much time the sculpt feature takes to rebuild?
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