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Sculpt Command Issue

ztdservices — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:23:41 GMT

Good Morning

Having an issue with the sculpt command whereby it wont let accept my selection and the ok box remains greyed out.

Any ideas

All services packs and hotfixes have been installed.

Thanks in advance

Jason

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

admaiora — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:36:06 GMT

What do you want to obtain?

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

ztdservices — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:40:50 GMT

the highlighted part needs to be removed (sculpted from the body) so the main body appears to have a threaded profile.

Thanks

Jason

@admaiorawrote:
What do you want to obtain?

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

admaiora — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:46:04 GMT

Not sure what do you mean.

Anyway Sculpt command doesn't work that way.

It create a solid from a closed surfaced space.

To remove feature you can suppres them.

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

ztdservices — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:00:01 GMT

I started with the copy object command to add the threaded details to the main body, then selected the sculpt command to removed the selected option. I have done this before and it has worked in the past, hence the reason why I m scratching my head with this just now.

@admaiorawrote:
Not sure what do you mean.

Anyway Sculpt command doesn't work that way.

It create a solid from a closed surfaced space.

To remove feature you can suppres them.

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

Hochenauer — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:00:03 GMT

The OK button is not enabled because your selection does not enclose a volume. It looks like you selected a single planar face. The Sculpt command turns a set of arbitrary intersecting surfaces building a closed volume into a solid.

Does this make sense?

From your description I gather you want to create a shaft with an outside thread where the hole currently is?

regards,

Gerald

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

ztdservices — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:02:01 GMT

the thread is internal (at one end)

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

Hochenauer — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:22:27 GMT

Ok, your input is a solid. I was able to use sculpt after deleting a face from it:

Sculpt

For Solids, you can use the Combine command:

combine

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Gerald

Re: Sculpt Command Issue

ztdservices — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:26:42 GMT

Thank you very much Gerald 🙂

Kind Regards

Jason

@Hochenauerwrote:
Ok, your input is a solid. I was able to use sculpt after deleting a face from it:
Sculpt

For Solids, you can use the Combine command:

combine
I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Gerald