I have an imported part to SOLIDWORKS. I had few issues related to mesh and I want to solve. The issues are mainly coming from the surfaces of the part. It is composed of several pieces of faces (from small to big). I want to merge them all together so there wont be any edges between the faces and the mesher will only see one face or few faces instead of many. I tried several hints but without any chance to solve it. I tried recognize features but SOLIDWORKS wasnt able to recreate the features of the part.
Thanks in advance for helping me.
could you please share with me the part you did. I want yo try it in my side. I have sw2020 so I will be able to open it.
Thanks
Model does not seem a complicated one. I do not know why you need to repair this, instead you can try modeling this from scratch.
yes I agree part is not so complicated but I need it as solidworks geometry because I am doing fem electromagnetic simulation. the mesh generated in this part represents some issues which have made the results wrong.
I dont have very very good skills in solidworks to recreate this part from scratch.
ps: it is scanned part
This would make an excellent part to practice gaining SolidWorks modeling skills.
It should not take very long.
Are you ready to start?
No gain without pain.
I have recreated it already in only two steps but this unfortunately didnt help me to solve my issue. anyway..
Sounds impressive.
Attach the resulting *.sldprt file here and indicate why it didn't help you solve your issue.
Two steps????
Attached what I have done. I used same feature of surfaces offset. The second screenshot below shows my problem related to the mesh.
I use standard version of SWX, mesh feature is not available in it.
I am trying to mesh using EMWorks-electromagnetic software inside SOLIDWORKS. Even for SW mesher , sometimes it gives such mesh but this critical in electromagnetic FEM simulation. I tried to delete some faces but this aslo didnt help. This scanned part seems complicated.
This would make an excellent part to practice gaining SolidWorks modeling skills.
It should not take very long.
Q. Are you ready to start?
A. ???
(Hint: The best answer might be something like, "Yes, I am ready to start, what is the first step?" The best answer is probably not, "I have recreated it already in only two steps...")
So, I will ask again, "Are you ready to start modeling this part over from scratch?"
If your answer is yes, then I can walk you through the process step-by-step.
The best answer is like what I said, yes I was able to recreate this part using some features. But from scratch, this would be a bit difficult even for solidworks expert/elite.It needs at least some time to finish it.
I am doing FEM simulation not CAD designing. I cannot spend a lot of time on SOLIDWORKS modeling and learning.
Thanks
I mean no offense, but that statement is like walking into a room filled with Olympic swimmers and telling them how difficult they should find swimming the length of the pool.
Mr. Mather is, professionally, a teacher who teaches Solidworks (among other CAD programs) to college students. He is constantly prowling the forums attempting to get us all to do things in CAD more efficiently and more robustly and I applaud him for it. Even when the "students" (I mean us forum users here) don't want to learn anything, he still keeps at it.
His effort here is that you get your job done as efficiently and robustly as possible.
CAD Translations can be tricky and finicky, depending on the translator used to export and the translator used to import. In almost every case, there are two separate translations happening. The export from the original CAD program to create whatever file you want to import, and then the import into your CAD program.
There are times where debugging the translation is the way to go, and there are other times where simply modeling the item from scratch is the way to go.
I agree with Mr. Mather and others that re-modeling it is the way to go.
This part seems simple enough that I would re-model it from scratch. As that would likely take less time and effort than attempting to repair a botched translation. Especially, based on my own experiences, when we are dealing with translated surfaces.
The most amazing part of this is that Mr. Mather was willing to take his time and energy to help you learn how to do this in an economical and robust way. That way, when you run into something similar in the future, you can react appropriately.
My advice is to take him up on the offer even if you don't plan on doing it that way. We will all probably learn something from watching it happen.
Thank you all, it looks there was a misunderstood with Mr. J. Mather, my apologises. I thought it would take some time to rebuild that part from scratch and this was according to one of our expert in SOLIDWORKS. As I mentioned earlier I am not expert with SOLIDWORKS, I just do EM simulation with few CAD design skills. it would be time consuming to learn focus in CAD and simulation.
Anyway, thank you all for your help and sorry again. I have learned much things from this discussion.
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Maha Nadarasa
Looks good, and it didn't take all that long to model, did it.
I could have shown the OP how to model it step-by-step in about 30 minutes.
One thing I would change though - I don't see Face Draft from the parting line along the entire outside length.
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Uh oh Maha, before I was just looking at the picture, now I have looked at the file.
I would have started over from scratch - this is far easier to start from scratch than to try to fix the original.
This area is probably going to present issues in meshing for analysis.
I have attached the file for your perusal. It took me more than 30 minutes may be around 2 hours. I had to go back and forth to repair to get a model that look likes original one. I would say this is not a clean method. If possible I would like to see file because I can learn many things from your file. You see I have a folder call J. Mather as well.
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This has been repaired.
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I have been waiting for your step-by-step 30 minutes video. If you can upload this in "The CADWhisperer" it will be helpful to many.
The OP is a beginner (but apparently not interested).
You are experienced and therefore I would expect to see a *.sldprt Attachment (of start from scratch attempt) as part of the discussion.
Although the part can be modeled in 30 minutes (or less) it would typically take me about 3 hrs of work to create the 30 minute video as I typically have a lot of uhms and ahs that I have to edit out.
Time does not matter but method is important.
Actually, my time does matter to me.
I'll be 63 in a few weeks and time is something that is becoming increasingly important to me.