Hello, all, first question from new user!!
I have created two 3D curved surfaces in a part drawing, from which I wish to create a solid body, extending from the surfaces to a chosen planar surface
I have tried thickening and surface extrude, either on a single of the surfaces or on both simultaneously.
Thickening gives me a body that extends roughly perpendicular from the individual surface in a specified thickness - not what I am looking for.
Surface extrude gives me the shape for which I am looking, but only creates surfaces, not solid bodies.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help!!
In the attached file (part drawing, SW 2019 SP3.0):
- the 3D surfaces colored orange/rust (right curved face, left curved face) are planned down to the green surface equal to front plane.
- Boss-Extrude1 and Sketch1 (including Sketch Picture1) are hidden.
There are several ways to do what you ask. Probably the easiest is this:
1 Use Knit to join the two surface bodies into a single surface body.
2 Open a sketch on the Top plane and use Convert Entities to convert the edges of the knitted surface
(the sketch has to be a closed contour as shown below, and has to be under the surface without
overlapping outside the boundary of the surface)
3 Use a solid Extrude to extrude the sketch up to the knitted surface