For some reason, I am unable to create a tooling split for a simple part. I am not sure if something is wrong with my solidworks so if someone could help me that would be great.
Basically at the last step to create the tooling split, I click the checkmark and nothing happens. Here are some step by step screenshots:
here it does not seem to be able to detect the appropriate size of the object (in tutorials I saw that it automatically generates a box:
So I drag out the arrows to fit the part inside the yellow box:
When I click the checkmark nothing happens!!
any ideas?
Jeff,
Just looking at the pictures, it seems like your parting surface is smaller than the sketch
Either make your tooling split sketch smaller within your parting surface boundary or make the boundary bigger than the sketch
Hope this works