Please help me with this problem.... 1

[phudge]

Hey guys does anybody know the best way to replicate this cutout onto all of the faces going round. please see the attached image.

Cheers

 

[donyoung]

circular pattern will do it

dy

 

[donyoung]

attached find is a sample for it (V18)

 

[phudge]

Wow thanks alot! thats exactly what i wanted!

Cheers,

could you explain briefly how you went about drawing this 12 sided shape, i managed it after alot messing around but wondered if i was missing somthing simple.

 

[donyoung]

> could you explain briefly how you went about drawing this 12 sided shape

I'm lazy ;-), I used a small program from this site: Polygon

dy

 

[Gemnoc]

phudge, there's a macro provided with SE that does that. It is located in Program Files\Solid Edge\Custom\nSidePolygon.

You can create a new toolbar button and attribute it to the macro. It takes some time for it to load, it's not as fast as a regular tool.

Personaly I prefer to do it the manual way. From the look of your screen capture, I think I'm doing it the same way as you.

- Start with a circle, convert it to a construction element
- Draw contiguous lines and taking care always "snaping" the endpoints to the circle. The polygon is inscribed within the circle.
- Assign equal relationships to all the line segments
- Dimension either the circle or a line segment, position the circle to the origin so the polygon is fully constrained.

 

[donyoung]

attached find a sample that can be modified to suit
no macro needed, variable driven, V18 Format

- variable Pat = number of flats
- variable AF = dimension accross flats

HTH

dy