Hi everyone - I am in part mode and I have a multitude of "coil" bodies that intersect another block body. I would like to subtract the coil volumes from the block body and retain the coils themselves. When I use the Feature... Combine... and select Subtract I get the right cavity freature in the block body but all of the coil bodies are also deleted. So I tried to make a second set of coil bodies before doing this operation but I cannot seem to get SW to simply create a copy off all the coils and leave them in place.
Any ideas on how to do this?
If it matters: I create the coil bodies using a linear pattern then do a revolve sweep to create the multitude of coil bodies. I use the same sweep method to create the overall block body as well.
I assume you use SolidWorks 2012 or older.
Rollback before the Combine Feature, and use the Move/Copy Body Command to create copy of the coil bodies.
Rollback to present and is done.
In 2013 you can use the Intersect feature in order to skip the copying bodies step.