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Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I have a complex shape on my hands that is giving me trouble, see attached pictures and file:

Here is the picture with explanation:


and the solidworks part file is also attached. I just cant seem to get the right lofted cut, thanks in advance for the help...

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

You're going to have to dig into your surfacing toolkit to fix this model. It shouldn't pose too many problems, just play around with deleting faces and filling them up again. The final solution will depend upon your design criteria.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I will look into the surface tool kit, any idea what tool in particular would do the trick?

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

When you take the surfacing pill there isn't just one tool to do the trick. You'll have to split, delete and fill some faces by the looks of it.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
Ok thanks I'm going to play with it in a bit here.

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

I concur, just so you have at least one reliable opinion.

Jeff Mirisola
My Blog

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
Im still having trouble with it, I deleted the faces I dont want but I am unsure how to loft the edges back together....

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
Ok here is where I am at, some faces deleted and need to "re-loft" them

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to accomplish.

Try: Select the face, add a sketch with the lines, go to the mold toolbar, split-line, then delete the face.

Chris
SolidWorks 11
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I just need to trim this face where i have the line here, then i can worry about re-lofting

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I got it, by adjusting my lofted cuts, never could figure out the face surfacing....

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
here is another shot with a more clear rendering:

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
thanks, now if i couls just get the filet command to work on the edges of all those raised "guides"...

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
i can try that..... give me a second

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
no that didnt do the trick either.... odd, some of those surface commands dont give good results....

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

I don't have an issue with it. In the fillet command, turn off "Tangent Propagation" on some of the fillets.
I can't add them for you and send back, you are using an older version of SW.

Chris
SolidWorks 11
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

Cut-Sweep1 & Cut-Extrude14 create an awkward little face at their intersection to the D-shsped boss. That may be a cause of fillet failure.

Are Cut-Sweep1 and Cut-Sweep2 supposed to be different? Could one not be mirrored to create the other?

Why aren't your sketches constrained?

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I noticed that odd face at the D shaped boss, I can go back and get rid of that based on changing the profile of the swept cut or maybe replace it with a lofted cut.

The sides are supposed to be different, although i will make them the same when i finish playing with it.

What do you mean by constrained? Ive never delt with constraining sketches before

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

asv4k8,

If you have never dealt with sketch constraints then you would benefit tremendously from going through the SolidWorks tutorials (Help -> Tutorials).

- - -Updraft

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

Quote (asv4k8)

What do you mean by constrained?
When a sketch is fully constrained, all the elements (lines, arcs, etc) turn black and cannot be moved by simply dragging a point or element. Adding dimensions and relations relative to the origin will accomplish this.

I suggest you work through the online tutorials, and read the Help files on sketching.
http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks...

RE: Ok Solidworks brain trust pros:

(OP)
I think I have used it in the past but I am a little rusty so I will run through the tutorials tomorrow in my free time.

As always thanks in advance and if you need ANY automotive engineering or performance advice feel free to email me as I am not on here that often.

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