Hey guys!
I have a part here that has a thick, round surface that instead needs to taper to a thin, rounded edge.
It is important that the XY plane maintains the cross section drawn in sketch 1. The XZ cross section also needs to remain rounded, cannot be stretched in the X axis, but can be stretched in the Z direction as needed.
I am completely new to SolidWorks, anyone has an idea how to do this?
So I just started learning about Surfaces and thought this would be a good place to use them.
I added a bunch of stuff ...in a trial and error fashion - a lot of stuff did not work!
Let me see if I can figure out what things I actually needed for that last version.
I made a plane on the near end of the part.
Then copied the first sketch there.
I edited that sketch to extend the straight lines, remove the round edge one half.
Then I made a 3D sketch and converted one half of the bottom edge.
I had to delete the OnEdge relation and then Fix the spline so it did not relate back to the original extrudes.
I suppressed the original extrudes.
I made a sketch on the Right Plane of a triangle connecting the two sketches.
Then I use Filled Surface to make the flat side, by selecting that whole sketch.
Then I filled the middle sketch.
Then I selected the bottom two edges of the surfaces and the 3D sketch. (I had to hide the sketches to select the edges.)
Then I selected the top two edges of the surfaces and the 3D sketch.
Then I used Surface Knit to create a solid.
Then I mirrored the body and added a fillet to the top edge.
I am new to surfaces. There might be a better way to do this.
Also I am not sure that the bottom surface is exactly how you want it.
I tried extrude cutting this back to perfectly round, but SW did not let me.
Also my initial attempt had issues with this area being too thin or crossing itself or something.
Maybe there is a way to offset a 3D sketch spline to make a .020" flat edge instead of a sharp?