How to Recess a Curved Surface in SolidWorks, by Josh Mings

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:00 +0000

“Five minutes from now, you will know two ways to recess a surface in SolidWorks. They won’t necessarily crush your skull, but they may expand it slightly by enriching your mind with the power of sketch, surface and split face features.

“It seems like there should be one feature to recess a surface in SolidWorks. It’s simple on a flat surface, a cut with a draft. But for a curved surface? Now, that’s a whole other beast and requires much more than one feature to create. Fortunately, you have at least two methods. Let’s Rock.” …

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Published by Josh Mings on 9/16/09 on SolidSmack

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

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:07:50 +0000

“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 it centerline. The laser head will move along the tube centerline to make the cut. A google search on ‘laser tube cutting’ will get you several links to companies that do this type of work and have some neat videos of the lasers in action.

Using typical SolidWorks modeling techniques, Extrudes and Cuts with solid bodies, this looks like an impossible task. This is where we, as SolidWorks users, need to think beyond our normal tools we use everyday and take a look at some of the other tools SolidWorks offers us.” …

Keep Reading: Anna’s SolidMuse: Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs.

Published by Anna Wood on 5/31/09 on Anna’s SolidMuse

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How to Recess a Curved Surface in SolidWorks, by Josh Mings

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