Nother thing

[Anonymous]

I know this probably isn't for most folks do'n everyday models, but I do quite a few complex forging's which are often good candidates for intersecting, The way I like to do'em is in one ipt, but it's not possible to do multiple extrude/intersects on different visible sketches so I have'ta end up whiddl'n when it would be much more elegant using multiple intersects to produce various weird shapes on different aspects of a forging without intersecting all the stuff modeled previously. ... On the other hand, guess it'd probably dilute a bit, the venom in Marketing's fangs and It'd probably be hard to entice 'em to strike, eh? ... Ah well back'ta whiddl'n.
~Larry

[Anonymous]

English translation please? You'll have to keep it simple so we can keep
up. 8~)

[Anonymous]

Larr, I hears you clear as dew on a widows web. Course Iz purty smart and all. Back to matters at hand, dont'cha think little bites is better than puttin' your whole face in the pie?

[Anonymous]

So I take it it's sort'a like I was talk'n with my mouth stuffed with cotton er someth'n, eh?

I'll try again:
start an ipt,
make a base sketch on the XZ plane (plan view sketch is what I call it)
make a side profile sketch on the XY right profile plane and return,
make another new sketch on a XZ bottom plane and project points etc, from the preceding profile sketch and draw the bottom profile.
Return and extrude the base sketch.
Extrude the profile sketch.
Intersect the profile extrusion with bottom profile sketch to shape the part.
Now ... instead of having a base plate and a shaped profile part, you just have a shaped profile part because the intersect took the base plate with it. So what if you would like to use intersect on about 20 more profiles in that same ipt ... looks like to me you'd still only end up with the last profile and all the other ones would be consumed by the 20 intersects ... although I certainly haven't tried it. I took my queue from the first time I did it, I think about it every time I want to do stuff it would be useful for, but never posted it, I'll attach a jpg of one of my forging's to give you an idea where I think it would e useful.
~Larry

[xavierl]

You mean you want something like boolean operations.
I have always wondered at this functionality being buried in the extrude command ie add subtract or intersect.
regards
Frans X Liebenberg
I was looking at this in Catia and there is a handy command called solid combine. ie you extrude 2 closed loops(at 90 deg to each other) simultaneously and it does the intersection for you Message was edited by: fxlxd

[Anonymous]

I follow you Larry, and I don't know how to get around it with out using the
derived part function. People have told me that I sound like I talk with a
mouth full of marbles. Enunciation is not a strong point of the south I
guess, but we got other things going for us 😉
wrote in message news:4831519@discussion.autodesk.com...
So I take it it's sort'a like I was talk'n with my mouth stuffed with cotton
er someth'n, eh?

I'll try again:
start an ipt,
make a base sketch on the XZ plane (plan view sketch is what I call it)
make a side profile sketch on the XY right profile plane and return,
make another new sketch on a XZ bottom plane and project points etc, from
the preceding profile sketch and draw the bottom profile.
Return and extrude the base sketch.
Extrude the profile sketch.
Intersect the profile extrusion w
ith bottom profile sketch to shape the part.
Now ... instead of having a base plate and a shaped profile part, you just
have a shaped profile part because the intersect took the base plate with
it. So what if you would like to use intersect on about 20 more profiles in
that same ipt ... looks like to me you'd still only end up with the last
profile and all the other ones would be consumed by the 20 intersects ...
although I certainly haven't tried it. I took my queue from the first time
I did it, I think about it every time I want to do stuff it would be useful
for, but never posted it, I'll attach a jpg of one of my forging's to give
you an idea where I think it would e useful.
~Larry

[Anonymous]

Well Jimmy, ... I get around it by Whiddl'n; eventually I get it whittled down to size, but i'd be much more elegant to have the intersect command to do the whiddl'n for me.

That Catia command sounds 'bout right to me Frans ... well ... less I'd have to pay a price like Catia's to get it.
~Larry

[Anonymous]

larry, your designing steering wheels for "pimp my ride"?

[Anonymous]

Had'da go'n let the cat out'a th'bag din'cha!
~Larry