when i am going to extrude cut there is lots of contours in the same sketch thats why my lappy gets slow and it takes a lot of time for extrude cut.
What i should to do extrude cut in minimum time and with minimum commands.
when i am going to extrude cut there is lots of contours in the same sketch thats why my lappy gets slow and it takes a lot of time for extrude cut.
What i should to do extrude cut in minimum time and with minimum commands.
I believe Steve was saying to remove the sketch pattern, and create a feature pattern.
In your sketch, you have 6 different patterns -
Create 6 new sketches, each with a single circle, to make the cut, and then pattern each of the cuts individually.
It will create a lot more in your FM tree (as you see in Steve's example), but it will perform much better.
When in doubt, simplify your sketches . . .
todd
Todd Blacksher wrote:
I believe Steve was saying to remove the sketch pattern, and create a feature pattern.
In your sketch, you have 6 different patterns -
Create 6 new sketches, each with a single circle, to make the cut, and then pattern each of the cuts individually.
It will create a lot more in your FM tree (as you see in Steve's example), but it will perform much better.
When in doubt, simplify your sketches . . .
That's excellent advice. And I agree that it's almost always better to create a feature with a simple sketch and then pattern the feature (or body) than to have sketch patterns.
There is no easy button here, you're going to have to do some work and when you're finished, put the features in folders so your tree doesn't look so high (as you say).
Also, while I type, I'm thinking there may be yet another method. I wonder if we've thought of using a sheet metal forming tool to do those circular patterns?
Steve C
I don't think making a pattern is a proper solution. This is an issue I'm having as well except I need to cut extrude outline of text brought in via a dxf from an illustrator file. I need to individually select each closed contoured letter which takes a large amount of time. This doesn't only apply to letters, it could be random shapes which aren't in a pattern, dxf files of patterns brought in from other sources, etc... There's so many situations where patterning is not a viable solution.
Surely there's a way where we can just select the sketch and Solidworks automatically picks all the contours to be cut-extrude / extrude instead of us having to select them all individually. I'm sure Solidworks had this feature in the past (or maybe it was another piece of software I was using), but not sure why it's not doing this any more.
I tested this out and you are right Deepak, if the contours are not connected and closed, it would pick all of them. If there is a connected closed contour like the one below, it doesn't work. With the text I had, it had connected closed contours from the illustrator file which is why Solidworks didn't automatically pick up all the closed contours. I should delete the connecting lines next time, save me a lot of time down the line. Thanks Deepak!
If you select the closed contours of a single sketch, you'll be able to do that BUT that's a lot of closed contours. Good luck!
Can you detect a pattern, maybe that will help...
Steve C