I am doing a project for a highschool class and I am having trouble making all the surfacing work together. I am designing a vehicle and have very basic solidwork knowledge.
I have attached the model and what I have done so far, I'm trying to make the surfaces on the side be one single surface thats nice and smooth, same goes for the top. Is there anyway this is possible?
Thanks
I still need to figure out how to fill in the loose gaps and smooth out the rough surfaces, anything I could do? the new model is attached to the first message.
thanks
Mason,
One method to eliminate gaps is to use the same sketches to generate the mating edges. If you use a 3D sketch for one part, use the same 3D sketch for the mating part at that edge.
Another method is to use the edge of the first part as the edge for the second part.
The Selection Manager will allow you to pick multiple edges for your Boundary or Loft Surfaces.
Jerry Steiger
I am trying to apply some pressure loads to interior cavities/galleries of hyraulic control valve housings (I work for a company that engineers hydraulic control valves for construction and farm equipment). We use Pro/Engineer to do our FEA, but are looking into Solidworks' capabilities because it is much more inexpensive. We use a seed surface on the inside of the cavity and then define boundary surfaces to which the applied surface eminates outward until it hits, thus allowing us to not spend hours selecting each "sub-surface" of the gallery surface. Are these "boundary surfaces" you're talking about here something similar to what I am looking for/do you know of any solution to my problem so I can apply pressure loads to extremely irregular work ports and bridge galleries of valve housings without selecting the individual surfaces themselves? Thanks for the help.
Austin,
No, Boundary Surfaces are just a different version of a Loft. I don't remember any selection capability in SolidWorks like the one you use in Pro/E, but I don't use the Advanced Selection methods much, if at all.
Jerry Steiger
Mason,
I'd take a look at Matthew Perez' post on drawing his Camero. Follow his tutorial and use your pdf's as a guide. I've followed his and the Audi tutorial you can buy online and learned a ton on surfacing car stuff. It looks like you have a great start though.
Replace all your lofts with Boundary Surface. This way you can add a tangency constraint of either "tangency" or even better "curvature continuous" in all 4 directions. Loft cannot do this.
This may prove to be difficult, but it is the proper method. Good luck and post a follow-up with more questions.