Hello everyone. I am finalizing a design for kicking off injection mold tooling and I have a few faces that just refuse to draft, even though the rest work fine! I cannot figure it out no matter how much I try.
Here are the surfaces that will not draft (including their error that do not offer much information to help). I am attaching the file.
@rzlotnik wrote:
I am finalizing a design for kicking off injection mold tooling
If you run a Modify->Compute All,
you'll find that there are 19 warnings in the timeline of this model.
If you click on the yellow warning triangle, it will show all the missing references that cause these warnings.
I would recommend to start this from scratch. Then model from the beginning with the proper draft angles applied and not trat it as an afterthought.
The timeline should only be 1/2 or 1/3 of what it is now.
well, the easy way to get rid of all the errors is to convert to Direct Modeling. But, just be aware of what that means: Your ability to edit the design is compromised. If the design is nearly where you want it, and you won't need to go back and edit sketches, features, etc. then this can be an easy way to get there.
As for draft, draft is not magic. There will be some geometries that just will not draft sometimes. Here is one workaround for one of the faces that sometimes works. I cannot guarantee that it will work for others, especially non-planar faces...
The basic idea is to create a copy of the face, manually draft it, then use Replace Face to bring the modified face back into the solid.
also: restarting a design from scratch, as @TrippyLighting suggested, can be a good exercise all on its own. I've found many times that the resulting design is MUCH cleaner, and always easier to do. I usually find that re-doing the design takes half the time or less, than the original design. Not saying you should do that in this case, but it is a good learning experience, IMO.
The process I propose is the same as @jeff_strater suggested but with a method to keep the new body, created for the Draft operation, in place. It makes the process much easier. You will see in the video I had to play around with the Pull Direction Face but you will get it. Basically select the face on the line between the new body and the existing body. Your model is attached.
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There is a lot more wrong with the model than just the inability to draft!
The video will still need to process for another 30 minutes in the high rez version:
@rzlotnik wrote:
BTW, what software are you using for recording your screen and voice together to make that video?
I use OBS Studio. It is free and creates high-quality videos. As far as I know, it does not have any editing abilities.
I don't usually edit these videos, but that can be achieved easily with the free version of DaVinci Resolve.
