Mike,
Thanks for your reply. See the Steve Miles post..."Need help from sweep
loft gurus".
We're hoping for some sort of work around or that our tooling guy can fix it
with his SW.
regards
Dale
"MikeC" wrote in message
news:3ff98ce1$1_3@statler...
> "Regarding sweeps, when they work, they tilt going around the part edge
even
> > if sketch elements of the profile are constrained to be horizontal or
> > vertical. Any way to keep this from happening and keep the profile
> > "upright"?"
>
> No. In your case the sweep will take its own "attitude" while it merrily
> tries to follow the 3D sketch. If you can get it to work at all.
>
> Also if you do a "rebuild all" on 302274-01 Inventor will come back with a
> lot of issues. Someone on this NG once told me to "rebuild all" frequently
> when making a complicated part to avoid this problem.
>
> If this is the kind of part you do a lot of, I would consider a more
> expensive software. Or maybe someone from ADSK or a guru will show us the
> workarounds to get this 10 deg "facedraft". Better yet, maybe they could
> take this part and make a tutorial of it.
>
> Anyway, I'll be following this thread to see if anyone comes up with a
> solution. I have similar problems with my parts.
>
>
> "Dale Dell'Ario" wrote in message
> news:3ff5fb9a_6@statler...
> > I've placed an IV7 assembly in the customer files area under a post
titled
> > "edges". I've posted it here because I believe more folks look in the 8
> > area now, so thanks in advance for indulging me.
> >
> > I am attempting to apply draft to a perimeter interlock feature common
to
> > plastic case parts. Since face draft won't work on them, I've tried
both
> > lofting and sweeps with failures and problems. The detritus of my
> attempts
> > will clue you into what I am trying.
> >
> > Regarding sweeps, when they work, they tilt going around the part edge
> even
> > if sketch elements of the profile are constrained to be horizontal or
> > vertical. Any way to keep this from happening and keep the profile
> > "upright"?
> >
> > Regarding lofting, IV laughs at my rails. Both 3D sketches and profiles
> are
> > built on the same geometry. I've tried to project the rail elements of
> the
> > 3D sketches I created for them into my loft profiles to attempt to
better
> > link the two but cannot do that. Other posts regarding lofts with rails
> make
> > them seem pretty touchy. Any ideas about my situation?
> >
> > There are several parts in the assembly, the 401327xx are later are
> derived
> > as one. 401327-07 and another numbered 302274 are the ones that mate.
> >
> > Thank you for checking this out.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Dale
> >
> >
>
>
