Make a curved cut on a curved surface of a free form object

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:59:15 GMT

Hi, I am having trouble trying to make a shallow cut on the surface of a form from the "create form" tool. I have followed previous advise on splitting surfaces and then trying to offset the surface onto the main body, but instead it seems to shrink or expand the body as a whole instead of the area of the face created to cut.

What should I do? Below is a step by step of what I did and what is going wrong. Thank you!

1. sketch; 2. extrude-new body; 3. split face; 4. the new face to offset; 5. the offset gone wrong.

Re: Make a curved cut on a curved surface of a free form object

jeff_strater — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:13:31 GMT

it worked on a simple model. Share your model for more help. There are some oddities to Offset Faces on a model like this with all tangent faces. You might need to use Split Body instead of Split Faces, do the offset, then Combine the separate body back to the original.

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Make a curved cut on a curved surface of a free form object

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