How to slice solid with surface?

[Anonymous]

I'm using ACAD 2014 Win8 64bit.

I need to slice a cylinder with a surface but the slice command keeps giving error " Inconsistent face-body relationships".

I created the surface from a solid that I created using solid intercept between the cylinder and another solid that the cylinder actually passes through (a housing I have). In my attachment I do not include the housing, just the cylinder, the solid intercept and the surface from the a face of the solid intercept.

I tried increasing the U & V isolines of the surface, and scaling it up so that it isn't bounded by the cylinder, but that didn't help.

I googled around for this and tried some of the suggestions I found, but no help.

I'm willing to try any technique that achieves the same goal - I need the butt of the cylinder to contour to the housing so that I can do a JOIN and have a solid housing with a cylinder sticking out of its face. The inside of the housing is hollow with a 0.05 inch wall.

Thanks for your help!

[nestly2 · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure why the surface slice fails, but if I understand your intention, creating the surface seems like an unnecessary step anyway.  I'd just subtract the interference, then separate.  

Demo -->  http://www.screencast.com/t/1tV7t2lDnn5

[nestly2]

Here's another demo using Interfere/Subtract/Separate to "slice" the part in place.  http://www.screencast.com/t/vDSkeOxYHH

[Anonymous]

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@nestly2 wrote:

I'm not sure why the surface slice fails, but if I understand your intention, creating the surface seems like an unnecessary step anyway.  I'd just subtract the interference, then separate.  

Demo -->  http://www.screencast.com/t/1tV7t2lDnn5

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I forgot about the separate command. Works great.

I appreciate the help.

--Bob