Loft / Shell problem

[Anonymous]

Thought I'd put this in CF in case anyone from Autodesk (or otherwise) is
interested.

The ipt won't shell, or at least after 30 min still hadn't solved. The (built
from exported shape) imported part (stitched and promoted) and igs are also
attached. For what it's worth, stp didn't appear it was going to shell,
either. The igs / stitch / promote routine is the best thing going for the
stuff I send back and forth. Please don't mess it up 8~)

Have a good weekend, all.

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[Anonymous]

Jeff,

I took a different approach after I saw the shell might not work - I never
did let it finish.

I deleted the faces at the ends of your wishbone and then used the
thicken/offset command to add material back. It took about 20 - 30 minutes
to calculate on my P4 1.6 notebook.

Stan McLean


"Jeff Howard" wrote in message
news:DEB745F48E2AAE2D3F26AA4B8753CD9A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thought I'd put this in CF in case anyone from Autodesk (or otherwise) is
> interested.
>
> The ipt won't shell, or at least after 30 min still hadn't solved. The
(built
> from exported shape) imported part (stitched and promoted) and igs are
also
> attached. For what it's worth, stp didn't appear it was going to shell,
> either. The igs / stitch / promote routine is the best thing going for
the
> stuff I send back and forth. Please don't mess it up 8~)
>
> Have a good weekend, all.
>
> =============================
>
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

Hi, Stan.

Thanks for taking a look. I'd tried the same thing, but killed the process
after 15 to 20 minutes before I gave up on doing it in IV. At this point it's
purely academic, I guess, as I did the installation using another software,
but I spent some time playing with the parts (both your thickened and my
shelled versions) in IV a bit. Some of the highlights...

The thickened part (native IV entities) would create good drawing views,
failed to calculate mass properties above Medium Accuracy (first time I've
seen that happen), and failed to export as step or iges and read back into IV.

The shelled part (based on imported surfaces) was missing lines in dwg views,
would calc mass props, failed to export as step and did ok as iges.

If I could figure out how to extract and combine the good qualities from each
version and get the feature creation times down to something acceptable I'd be
tickled pink. It'll be interesting to see what 7 brings to the table.

Have a good one.

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"Stan McLean" wrote in message
news:E34DA92BCE02A1FF1185E75ACD8BFE3A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
Jeff,

I took a different approach after I saw the shell might not work - I never
did let it finish.

I deleted the faces at the ends of your wishbone and then used the
thicken/offset command to add material back. It took about 20 - 30 minutes
to calculate on my P4 1.6 notebook.

Stan McLean