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Re: Questions from a new user: Project outlines onto a surface for
From your description, it's difficult to tell exactly what you are trying to do.
Are you attempting to make the parting line for the individual items? Or, are you trying to create something else?
Your file didn't have any features added by you showing any attempt at this so it's tough to know exactly what you're asking. Can you elaborate? Since it's a school assignment, would it be possible to gain clarification from your instructor? Jumping right into mold tools is a huge learning curve if you aren't familiar with SolidWorks so I find it surprising that your instructor expects this of you.
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Re: Questions from a new user: Project outlines onto a surface for
Hi Alex
Well i'm actually only looking for the total area of the projection. For that i would need the outline for the measure-tool so i could get the projected surface area?
If i'm not very precise in my description i apologize, english is not my first language.
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Re: Questions from a new user: Project outlines onto a surface for
It's no problem, I was simply looking for clarification. I can't seem to get my software (2018 SP4) to convert a parting line entity to a projected sketch so I have 2 proposed solutions.
1) Turn your parting line into a parting surface. Start a sketch on the top plane and select the interior loop of the parting surface and convert that to a sketch on the top plane.
2) Start a sketch on the top plane and then select convert entities and manually select all of the outer-most edges of each item.
Either way, you'll end up with something like this
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