I have modelled the part which is a travelling steady for a lathe. The part will be sand cast and needs to be split it two halves, each half joining on a flat face.
I tried using the split pattern function but this seems to be developed more around creating injection moulds. If you turn off the surface bodies the remaining body is hollow.
I wish to split my model into two parts so I can further work on those parts as solid models, I need to put holes and locating pins so I can align the two halves. The idea is to 3D print the 2 patterns.
B. D,
I rolled back your model to just after the Body Delete & then used the split command using the large flat face as the trim tool. The part was cut into two solid bodies which can then continued to be edited, or if you select to Auto Name the resulting cut bodies, two new parts are created & opened which can be modified. Although I don't think these changes are propagated back to the original part but someone might correct me on that.