crazytok Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Im a newbie to Solidworks and is still learning... Im trying to do a model of a footpeg widener for my motorbike and having trouble to do an extruded cut for the pegs... What a want to achieve is a "swept" cut with a sketched profile but in a 90degrees angle of the path line. Hard to describe but I posting a photo so you can see what i want to do... The ORANGE field is my sketched profile, that i want to follow the GREEN path. BUT following the direction of the arrows! Is this possible? Best regards Thomas Quote
JD Mather Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Sounds like you want a Curve Driven Pattern (see the Help files). Drag the bar at the bottom of your history tree to the top of the tree hiding all features. Save the file in this rolled up state. Right click on the filename and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder. Attach the resulting *.zip file here. Quote
crazytok Posted August 10, 2012 Author Posted August 10, 2012 Thanks for your reply! The file is larger than 500kbit and I cant split it in ZIP format, only in rar... And rar files is not aloud in here... So here is a link to the zip file instead... www.xphase.se/temp/footpeg_widener_ver4.zip Hope that works! Thanks again!! Quote
JD Mather Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 The file is larger than 500kbit I don't believe that. Attach screen shot of feature tree showing that it is in a rolled up state. There is no way that file should be that large. Create a simplified representation without all the other features that aren't part of the question. I don't open *.rar files or files posted at other sites. Maybe someone else will come along and examine the file. Quote
bhamze Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Something like this? If so, follow JD's advice and use curve driven pattern. I would share my model but I'm running 2012 an noticed you using an older version. Let me know if your able to figure it out. Quote
crazytok Posted August 10, 2012 Author Posted August 10, 2012 JD Mather: Im sorry but I dont know what you mean by "Rolled up state". If you meant to Rollback all features I did try that now and it did make the file a little bit smaller. So now it works.... Here it is! footpeg_widener_ver4.zip bhamze: YES, that is exactly what I want to achieve!! Hmm... "Curve drived pattern" I have tried that too, but I dont know how to use it! I cant select the whole chain "path" and thats why I cant manage it to work.... Could you please give me a screenshot of your settings in that feature please? By the way.... Is it possible to have different spacings between the cuts? Because in the curve it didnt look that pretty, so that would be a problem! :/ Thats awesome, please thanks for your help! Both of you... Quote
bhamze Posted August 11, 2012 Posted August 11, 2012 Here's a quick video showing Curve Driven Pattern and some of its options. There is no audio but I think you should be able to follow. Does it answer your questions? Quote
crazytok Posted August 11, 2012 Author Posted August 11, 2012 bhamze: Thank you so much!! That is so kind of you doing a video to show a newbie like me how to do it... But DAMN you are fast! Lucky for me there is a pause button... I now have managed to do what I wanted, because of you! A BIG THANKS TO YOU BHAMZE! Quote
bhamze Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 My pleasure to help. Glad to hear you figured it out. Good luck on future projects! Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.