jpolihro Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Hello All, I am trying to align 2 solid bodies so they intersect without forming small-area faces. Then my goal is to combine them in a single volume and avoid "cracks" or short sticking-out edges. What is your strategy on that? I thought of: 1) build edges that coincide with the crack edges (here is a problem, because some of these edges are curved) 2) fill surfaces 3) close all fill-surfaces and create a solid volume inside the crack like a "tooth filling" 4) combine all voulmes Any ideas?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 can you give a little insight or screen shot as to the parts your dealing with. Is this an assembly or a single part you are creatings? Was it modeled in Solidworks or imported from another package. what version of SW are you working with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpolihro Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 here is an example (SW2008) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 if i were trying to clean that up, my first thought would be a sketch using the top of your parts as the sketch plane. make sure you your constraints, and use your sketch to do an extrude>cut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpolihro Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 Problem solved: I managed to avoid cracks by changing my model and then formed an assembly, used mating to constrain the positions of the bodies. In particular, I chose 1 face on each solid and forced these faces to be "coincident" with opposing normal vectors. Then by using the magnifier I was able to adjust the needed edges so that they became coincident with high degree of precision. Mostly, the answer of the issue was: 1) form an assembly 2) do mating Thank you for all suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 oh so they are two different parts, not one. glad you got it solved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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