2 Replies Latest reply on May 16, 2013 8:55 AM by Tony Vitale

Complex surface modeling help!

Jack Robinson May 14, 2013 10:22 AM

Hi there, I'm a final year student working on my major project and I am required to create a fairing that I have designed myself.

The problem is that the fairing I have designed is quite complex, I have fully surfaced it and am happy with the result however I can’t seem to thicken and add material to the model.

I have tried everything spending hours adding to the curvature, there are still errors in the check feature but I really could do with some advice from someone who knows what they are doing.

Thank you for your time,

Jack

fairing base FULL vent HALF.SLDPRT.zip 5.2 MB

Re: Complex surface modeling help!

Patrick O'Hern May 14, 2013 11:26 AM (in response to Jack Robinson)

Try breaking it up into smaller pieces, and then adding thickness to each section. This will let you narrow down the area/areas that are causing problems.
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Re: Complex surface modeling help!

Tony Vitale May 16, 2013 8:55 AM (in response to Jack Robinson)

i can see a a couple areas that might be giving u trouble. first is here, there is some funkiness going on with these surfaces. they dont seem to merge nicely. maybe try to break it up into a couple of fill surfaces:

Here i tried to mirror and can see some overlapping surfaces at the seam:
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