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sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

(OP)
I attached a prt file. This is a simple exercise that I don't understand.

I have an extruded semi-circle to which I added a nice bridge curve contour by a sweep function. At this point I unsew one face of the solid, then sew it all back up but there is always a surface in the middle of the part.

Thanks.

nx 9

RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

The Unsew turns the solid into a sheet body. The surface in the middle is the surface you unsewed from the solid to make it a sheet.
What's the issue with having that sheet?

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

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RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

Use 'Delete Body' on it.

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

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RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

however I would try and avoid creating the sweep in the first place, see attached for one way of doing something like the end result.

Anthony Galante
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RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

To me this is a very backward way of working, ( on the other hand i have never understood the use of the unsew feature...)
If you wish to copy a face for other purposes, the command name is "Extract Geometry".
Why don't you include the vertical edge of the extrude such that you have a closed section to sweep, (+ Preserve Shape to keep the logical face division.)
See attached.

- Bridge Curve4 is suppressed since it's not used. delete ?

Regards,
Tomas

RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

There's still no reason why you couldn't have created your 'sweep' as a Solid to start with and then simply Unite it with the central 'core' part of the model, as I've done in the attached modified version of your model.

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RE: sewing extruded solid with a swept edge

(OP)
yes, thanks, I was only selecting the bridge curve and not the edge of body, therefor, I was only getting sheets from the sweep. Originally I was doing this with all sheets and no bodies so I completely missed that detail. thank you.

nx 9

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