topic Re: How to edit this solid? in AutoCAD Forum

How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:05:13 GMT

I have this cube that needs to taper into the round solid at the left. I would like to subtract the 4 slivers in the corners using that plane I revolved to slice through thanks

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:17:52 GMT

Use SLICE command

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:25:57 GMT

Plane wasn't the right word to use, sorry. It is not flat, I didn't think slice work on this?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:29:40 GMT

Let's see your .dwg, it looks simple to do (maybe)

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:39:43 GMT

Here is the dwg

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:44:19 GMT

Like this?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:52:01 GMT

Thats it! Now how did you do that, lol

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:53:34 GMT

Slice command, click on the cube, then watch the prompt, it will ask for SURFACE, use surface to slice the cube.

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:56:35 GMT

Got it to work here on my end, thanks again

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:57:37 GMT

I have another solid that I can't seem to slice. I keep getting 'the slicing plane is not intersecting' error.

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:04:10 GMT

Where do you want it to slice? into 2 equal parts?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:22:43 GMT

Yes please using that dashed line as the plane

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:08:19 GMT

Like this?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:47:03 GMT

Perfect, whats the trick to getting that to work?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:48:51 GMT

Copy the dash line to a different Z , Loft them, Slice using surface.

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:57:49 GMT

Awesome, that works!

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:59:46 GMT

The reason I wanted to slice this pc is because autocad adds a weird spiky artifact to one side when I STLOUT. I wanted to slice the pc in half, delete the side with the spike, mirror over the good side, and union. When I do that with the above file dwg, I get an 'inconsistent graph vertices' error, any ideas how to get around that?

Re: How to edit this solid?

Patchy — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:16:45 GMT

Which side is bad when STLOUT? if the part is mirrored, the peg hole will not match what you have now.

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:48:15 GMT

The left side is the bad side.

Re: How to edit this solid?

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:14:28 GMT

Just wondering if you have had a chance to look at this, I can't get these guys to union no matter what I try, thanks.