creating solids from surfaces

[harichennai]

Hi,


Please tell me how to solidify the entire part which is full of surfaces.


Should I use create solid> protrusion> use Quilt ?





Thanks in advance

 

[james.lynch]

Hari,


What you need to do is merge the surfaces into one complete closed surface and then use the edit/solidify command.


James

 

[harichennai]

Thanks James,


When I right click in model tree the surface merege , ther ei sno edit option, only edit reference is there.


iam using 2001.


regards

 

[james.lynch]

ohh.. 2001, not too familiar with it, only used it for a month before moving to wildfire..


I think you have to use insert/surface operation/merge to initially merge the surfaces, then use


Feature/create/solid/protrusion/use quilt/solid


to solidify the model once all the surfaces were merged..


hope this helps, if not I'm sure that there are more than a few people on this forum who know a "little bit" about ProE 2001!!

good luck!

 

[cristelino]

And of course the surface must be closed


cristelino

 

[harichennai]

Thanks all,


But are pink lines appearing in drawings is normal or is it not a standard practise?


regards


hari

 

[dlongmi]

What is the difference between edit solidify and edit thicken?

 

[cristelino]

dlongmi

IMAGINE THAT;you have surface and you can input the thikness

usefull for sheetmetal



When the surface is closed you FILL boundary surface volume and transfor this volume in solid part

 

[james.lynch]

Pink Lines??


not sure what you mean.. got a pict?

 

[cristelino]

In part you have maybe some surface

In drawing is appearring i think

Blank layer is solution or in part mode hide the surfaces



cristelino

 

[harichennai]

hi,


Not some surface, but all surfaces in my part.They appear as pink lines in drawing.


Ok...Are pink lines allowed in general drawing standards??


that is my current question..


thanks

 

[cristelino]

can you show to us some screen shots?


Cristelino

 

[abhishek.modi]

Hi all,


I am trying to solidify a part made entirely of surfaces. I am using wildfire 1.0


I tried what Christellino has suggested. Merged all the quilts into one closed quilt. But the Edit/Solidify button is still greyed out. As far as I can tell the quilt is closed.


is there something else I need to do?

 

[abhishek.modi]

I added a solid extrusion on one plane side of the part. Now when I select the merged quilt, the solidify option is accessible. But it gives an error of "one sided line found in protrusion"


I dont know what that means?


Why do I need some solid geometry before I can use the solidify option?


Is there a way to select quilts associated with different features?

 

[cristelino]

may be you have some boundary not closed

In this case you must create patches for all that little surface merge and after all that try to solidify

Select quilt for specific feature?is not imposibele but why you wanna do that?

example:2 surface (pic1) pic 2 merge surface (this boundary is pink;yellow-the surface is open



If you ned help send me the part



Cristelino@yahoo.com



Cristelino





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[kujur11a]

hi, its very simple if the surface geometry is having all there edges in pink colour the it means the surface body is a closed one. to convert it into solid all you need to do is insert> solid> protrusion> use quilt> solid. But if your surface body is having yellow edges it means that surface body is open from there if still u want to convet it into solid then use insert> solid> protrusion> use quilt> thin and provide the neend full thickness to the surface geometry.


In drawing mode all edges should either be in white or in grey not it pink. Pink edges signifies the surface edges.


to make open surface geometry closed you can use merge command. but there should not be any gaps between the surfaces you are trying to merge. Merge is nothibg but making two different surfaces into one.


hope your doubts are cleared.


kujur

 

[Moroso]

Can either of you post your parts here, I will try to solidfy them for you and repost them.

 

[cristelino]

Finaly someone whohave good idea

Cristelino