How to fill in 3D void and create new part?

[Viu]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]35674[/ATTACH]

 

How would I go about filling in this void and creating a new part?

[JD Mather]

Sculpt (perhaps in combination with Boundary Patch).

Attach the file here.

 

 

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2008/ML205-1P%20Mather.pdf

[Bishop]

Isn't that void where your mainspring goes?

[Viu]

Isn't that void where your mainspring goes?

 

Nope, it's a mystery as to why there's a huge void there. It might be to save on weight and polymer but no one knows for sure.

 

Also I cannot upload the part here, the file is too large.

[Bishop]

Nope, it's a mystery as to why there's a huge void there. It might be to save on weight and polymer but no one knows for sure.

 

Also I cannot upload the part here, the file is too large.

 

 

 

Ah, right - striker, not hammer. Yeah, it'd be just to save material and weight while still giving a curve to the back strap.

 

Delete face with heal checked might work.

 

As for attaching the part, roll the end of part all the way up to the top and the file should shrink enough. Unless you didn't model the part ... if it's an imported STP file or similar, you won't be able to do that.

 

 

EDIT: Having a void there also helps with the cycle time for molding the part. Having a big solid chunk there means that the part will have to sit in the mold longer to cool before it can be stripped and the next part molded. Keep the cross section as thin as possible (consistent with your structural goals, of course) and you'll have better results in injection molding.

Edited July 3, 2012 by Bishop

[JD Mather]

Delete face with heal checked might work.

 

Looks like a surface body to me.

[Bishop]

Should still work, though - I've used it to remove small details from a part that I derived in as a surface body.

 

If it doesn't, though, that's still no problem - delete the faces without checking heal, then do a new patch to cover the hole and then stitch.