topic Re: How to delete interference (overlapping) material in an assembly? in Inventor Forum

How to delete interference (overlapping) material in an assembly?

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:02:18 GMT

I want to delete sections of my part which interfer with each other but I get an error message.

I do the following steps:

1. first compile the assembly from the two parts ('header pipe' and 'AIV branch') and constrain

2. run an 'Analyse Interference' check and found that there is a small interference (see below):

3. In assembly I double click on the 'header pipe' part

4. I 'copy part' for the 'AIV branch'

5. I use 'scuplt' commands, but it produced the following error:

Can you advise what I am doing wrong?

I simply want to delete any overlapping material.

Thanks

Danny

JDMather — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:58:19 GMT

Here is a Derived Component technique (open the pipe and examine).

Multi-body solids technique probably would have been even easier.

Shouldn't there be clearance between the parts to allow for manufacturing tolerances?

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:03:13 GMT

Can you run me through the technique you used or give me a link?

Did you need to cut off material from the 'header pipe' or the 'AIV branch'? I need the branch to remain unaltered.

In regard to tolerances, I am using this model for FEA on another program.