Last year the reception was during the SuperBowl, and they played the game at the reception on huge screens with free beers and food. I thought it was an improvement over my living room. Maybe they'll have a couple of screens running again this year. If you go to SWW to network and meet folks...
The gasket area is flat, right? So put it on a flat bed document scanner, bring the image into SW as a sketch picture, scale it from a known dimension, and you can trace it. If the physical part is clean, you should be able to get something that looks good, and very close to reality. The...
Sweep? No way. Use a loft. You've already got everything you need to make a loft. For a sweep you're gonna also need a guide curve. Make a centerline loft, and you might have to change the twist settings, but you'll be done in 15 seconds.
Best of luck
SolidWorks doesn't have a variable chamfer, only a variable radius fillet. Here's what you can do, though.
Make a variable radius fillet using the values you mentioned, then loft a surface from one set of edges to the other, with no tangent end conditions. Then open the Replace Face feature and...
SolidWorks does run on windows on mac hardware, but to the best of my knowledge, the video cards available for the mac make it less than optimal.
If you are only using SW on that machine casually or intermittently, and you don't have high expectations for it, it might not be a disaster. Running...
Well, believe me, nobody's getting rich writing CAD books, and you don't really see any money until almost a year after you've done the work. It is nice working at home, though, without the weight of corporate life pressing down.
If I were making a lot of money, I'd be on a beach in Belize...
Albatros,
Sorry I'm a little late to the party here. I don't come around these parts much any more.
Thanks for your comments on the book. Unfortunately, there actually are a couple of places where you might get the idea that the book is for beginners. Working with a big corporate publisher...
Extrude a face? Interesting.
If you want a slot that follows the spline around the surface of the cylinder, like a cam slopt, you could sweep a rectangle along the 3D sketch. It could be a Wrap feature will help you get what you want. If you just want to make a hole shaped like the spline, just...
:) Finder's Fee? 15%??? That's more than *I* make on the book!
I'll buy Jeff a drink next time I'm in Portland. Which will be July, by the way.
Anyway, Ripper, I hope you enjoy the book.
Matt Lombard
Which dimensioning standard are you using? It sounds like ISO. If you switch to ANSI, it should do what you ask.
Or to change dims individually, you could RMB on the dim, go to Properties, Display, and Override standards dimension display, and pick the middle option.
The only thing you can do is go through Toolbox an recreate all of the configuration sizes you used. Once you save the assembly with the "huge screws", you're screwed. Because it can't find the configs that were used in the assembly, it is replacing them with the Default configs, which are...
If you break the part into several bodies, you can shell the areas that will shell and then put it back together.
Another thing you might try is a multi-thickness shell.
Also, you might just try it. The shell works much better than it used to.
If you keep waiting for the next great thing, you'll never get anything.
Here's a recommendation (without any idea what kinds of designs you work with):
- core duo (intel) or AMD FX 60 (big bucks dual core) or Athlon 4800+ (dual core)
- 1 Gb ram min, depending on what you're doing maybe more...
