Category Archives: Anna's SolidMuse

Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs: Option 3, by Anna Wood

By admin | June 9, 2009

“I recieved another solution for the modeling task of creating end cut-offs in a tube that are normal to the surface. This particular solution was submitted by Charles Culp.” …
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Published by Anna Wood on 6/7/09 on Anna’s SolidMuse

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Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs, by Anna Wood

By admin | June 4, 2009

“This was a question posed a few weeks ago on the SolidWorks Forums. How do you model a tube with an end cutoff normal to the surface of the tube? This is the type of cut that would be created with a laser. The tube is held in a chuck that rotates the tube around [...]

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SolidWorks Forming Tool Wizard… Why I Don’t Use It, by Anna Wood

By admin | May 27, 2009

“Ever since SolidWorks developed a new way of creating Sheet Metal Forming Tools in SolidWorks 2006 with their Form Tools Wizard I have not used it. I use the old school techniques for creating the forming tool. The number one reason I do not use the wizard is the Orientation Sketch in the form tool [...]

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