Alas!!!!

For some this is the only change they will accept.

Ahhh, Look at all the pretty colors...

Here is one for you. I was given a simple task of changing one of our weldments (weldment in real life not a SW weldment) from mild to stainless steel. No problem except we have difficulty getting stainless in sheets large enough for one of the parts. Again no problem as it laps over another smaller part that I can extend while shortening the first. In doing so I need to lengthen one leg and add another bend. Now we find the first problem. First he didn't use sheetmetal but extrusions. Then he did a thin extrude and just did it blind rather than midplane. Then he needed the part to be 1/4" wider so he added a 1/8" boss extrude to both sides. Then he dimensioned all cuts from the edge which means this sliver of an extrude.

It would have been easier to start from scratch. Fortunately it was a small part. Attached for your enjoyment or here are the pictures.

Here is what I needed.

Oh, and the other part was modeled the same way.

I recently came into contact with a part which does a fantastic job of showing why lazy surface modeling is not a replacement for solid modeling. I'd describe it as a monument to mans arrogance

On first glance it's an interesting looking part, obviously this must have be- wait, wait - are those blue lines on my surface edges? No - no, it can't be -

dear god... what have they done?!

oh lord please no

Surely though, surely the sketches are defined - it must have at least one redeeming quality

nope

Truely worthy of the Solidworks horror museum

Thankfully, i've since remodeled it as a single body

And I was surprised when Feature-Driven patterning the bolts in the assembly didn't work as expected!

Jack Brooker wrote:

 

 

Thankfully, i've since remodeled it as a single body

 

But...but...but, it was already a single body

Being new to this: how are these mirroring done? If I had to use mirroring, I count 2 (1 on the short edge, one on the long edge), not 5

Also, what's the best method to position the holes here?

Pierre-Antoine Mangeret wrote:

 

Also, what's the best method to position the holes here?

There is no best method.  I will typically create a single Hole Wizard feature for the holes that join two parts.  If there is some symmetry and the part connects to two or more of the same part, I might expand that Hole Wizard feature to include the all the holes that attach those identical parts to this part.  If the number of holes is exceeds what I can quickly sketch and constrain, I might make a single HoleWizard hole and then use patterns.

Thanks!

So you would define right & left placements either in the sketch or in a pattern, and not use mirroring?

Possibly a new PB, certainly from a Feature Count perspective.  From this:

To this:

Previous guy didn't seem to believe in redefining sketches when the geometry needed changing, the Move Face command got used instead.

Oh I think you found my ex-co-worker.

From this:

To this:

That's pretty awesome Dave Laban - using the Move Face feature would allow me to start out Designing a Chair and ending up with a Bed...