I need to make an extruded cut on a lofted and shelled
part...I originally built the part (attachment loftedbookbox2) as a
lofted solid and then made a lofted cut to get a "shell" effect,
but that resulted in thickness variations. Then I rebuilt the part
as a lofted solid and shelled the inside and built bosses and other
features inside (loftedbookbox070808) ...that one is working out
just fine, but I need to make a cut out of the front. i'm
struggling with both. Someone pls help!!!
This is a plastic book box that goes under a student desk.
This is a plastic book box that goes under a student desk.
How do I make a cut along a conical surface? The corners are conical and the wall is not planar. The bottom surface, however, is flat.
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Is your cut going to indent the surface, cut through it, how is it going to effect the surface? I'm having a hard time envisioning what you're trying to explain. Also not sure what surface you're cutting. Maybe you can sketch an outline of the cut you need to make, and color the surface it's going to cut a different color.
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Sometimes hate to ask an obvious question, but why create the green surface in the first place if you don't need it?
Assuming you need the green surface for creation, were the cylinders in the corners created first? If they were, directly after you created them, do an 'offset from surface' on them with an offset distance of zero. Finish your model up to the point in the picture. Along with the first surfaces you created on the cylinders, create more surfaces to encapsulate what you need to get rid off, and end/trim them on the cylinder surfaces. Once you have the green area surrounded that you want to remove, do a 'cut with surface' to remove the undesired portion of the model.
Another method that can be used when removing uneeded geometry later is to uncheck the merge option when creating geometry, creating multiple solid bodies. Then later, you can delete the bodies you don't need.
Hopefully one of the above ideas helps you out, or gets you started thinking of another way to finish your model.
Hopefully you can step back through the FMT and it will help give you some ideas (also hopefully I understood the problem correctly).