How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
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How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
How do i pad extra thickness to this area?Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
- Create new sketch.
- move sketch to surface
- duplicate geometry and make sketch
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Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
Thank you. I have left the sketch under constrained for now just so I can continue to make minor changes
Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
A more efficient method is to select the face on your solid before creating a new sketch. It will automatically map it to the solid, allowing you to create a pad that will be automatically fused to the solid, or a Part Design Pocket that will cut away material.
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Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
NormandC,I understand I can pad a new sketch to fuse more thickness. I am wondering if there is relatively simple method I can use to copy the outer edge of the existing face in this area and mirror it symmetrically to create the new closed sketch? Or do i have to manually re draw it? Jee Bee has somehow managed to use the existing outer edges although, I have yet to figure how he did it?
Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
He used the external geometry tool - Sketcher External - to use the external vertex and center points as reference and points of constraint, though there is some conflicting geometry in the sketch.Edgecutter wrote:NormandC,I understand I can pad a new sketch to fuse more thickness. I am wondering if there is relatively simple method I can use to copy the outer edge of the existing face in this area and mirror it symmetrically to create the new closed sketch? Or do i have to manually re draw it? Jee Bee has somehow managed to use the existing outer edges although, I have yet to figure how he did it?
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Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
Sorry, I hadn't understood that part.Edgecutter wrote:I am wondering if there is relatively simple method I can use to copy the outer edge of the existing face in this area and mirror it symmetrically to create the new closed sketch? Or do i have to manually re draw it?
There is currently no quick and simple way to copy and mirror external geometry. There is a mirror tool in the Sketcher, but it does not work with external geometry. Linked external geometry acts as construction geometry in that it is discarded outside of the sketch editing mode. What Jee-Bee had to do is create "regular" geometry overlapping the external geometry.
Personally I don't like to have geometry overlapping each other. Which is why I'd suggest an alternate method: make your first Pad thicker, so it is equal to the overall thickness of your part; then rather than make a new Pad, create a Pocket that will take away the inverse region of the "boss".
Like Jee-Bee, I didn't add the small fillets in the corners. I prefer to add such details at the end as PartDesign (3D) features.
This alternate method has two advantages:
- No overlapping geometry in the sketch
- The outer faces are not split with a residual edge like with a Pad.
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Re: How do i pad extra thickness to this area?
Thank you NormandC and Jee-Bee you have both been most helpful. I can see I have much to learn! If you can point me to any specific tutorials that illustrate the techniques used this would be really useful.
Once again your help really appreciate
Once again your help really appreciate