Trick SAC: closed shape using Surface links.

[joantopo]

Ok.

This behaviour seems stupid, but I have to make this to solve and it works !

- The first thing you must do is defining a variable "Define variable". I called it "Tolerance" with a value of 0.001 (1 miilimeter).

- If you need a surface link, you will have to create 2 links (in the example are L13 and L17 links) after you had already created the surface link. NEVER before the surface link. (WHY?)

The reason is because the L13 and L17 must be linked to the Start point and End Point which are created once you added a surface link.

So, for the L13 link, the end point will be "P17" (this point is "Start point name" of the surface link).

The L17 Link, the end point will be "P18" (this point is the "End point name" of the surface link).

As directly I can´t join L12 to L5, I had to create a small link "L17" which its length is the tolerance.

Surface Link:

[joantopo · Accepted solution]

Istead of creating small links such as L17, another solution is creating the "surface link" at the beginning of the code in SAC.

So, once you have the surface link, you can create the links L4,L5 and L13 using the start and end points of the surface link to join the rest of the links.

So, if you need a surface link in your subassembly, remember create it at the beginning of the subassembly and use its points.