Cut the excess on this rubber bit

[Anonymous]

Hi--

I've been trying to figure out how to cut the section in blue in the photo. 

I've only been able to Split the body, then move the lower part (in blue) away.

It doesn't really do the trick--it's sloppy and really inefficient.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

(this would fit into a hole in a bike frame and allow cables and wires to pass through the frame to electric motor, brakes)

Thank you in advance

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After split you should remove not move the unwanted part. Another option would be to use the draft command. Can you File -> Export and share your design?

[Anonymous]

The exported file--see attachment.

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Here is the way split body and remove would do the trick.

By looking at you project I recommend strongly that you check out Rule #1. IMHO you shouldn't create several bodies within one component. Unless you've colored the bodies blue and green I'm guessing you had two components in mind. Because of this I've

• Modify -> Combine -> Join the blue bodies into one body (another solution could be to adjust the existing extrude commands from Extrude -> New Body into Extrude Join).
• After that I've created a new component, moved it down in the timeline and I've moved the 35deg plane, too. All related features (sketch, extrude) did follow. 
• No I've reassigned the sketch plane to the origin and I was able to delete the 35deg plane. It's not needed in this solution.
• Now I used Modify -> Draft to create the angle at the pipe.
• Finaly I could use the Assemble -> Joint command to assemble both parts.

Here is the screencast and the project file: 

[Anonymous]

The first method is extremely easy and efficient.

FYI: I make the parts as individual bodies in the design phase because it is easy to change the specifics of any part. Because it is a small part I don't bother joining the parts but don't have any objection to it.

I assigned different colors simply for ease of tutorial (and explaining what I had been trying to do.

Thank you very much for your time with this and teaching.

G

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@Anonymous wrote:

The first method is extremely easy and efficient.,,

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So - a plane + a split + a remove body is more efficient than a draft + a joint? I can't agree.

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@Anonymous wrote:

,,, I make the parts as individual bodies in the design phase because it is easy to change the specifics of any part.,,,

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Your multi body solution isn't more easy to change than the version with one body per component. It works more or less the same. Sometimes it's even easier. 

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... Because it is a small part I don't bother joining the parts but don't have any objection to it...

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Okay - you don't have to join parts. Just ignore it. It's often reacts just better to changes in the design. 

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@Anonymous wrote:

I assigned different colors simply for ease of tutorial (and explaining what I had been trying to do...

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That's again something that comes for free if you're using components. Just hit Shift + N and each component gets it's own color. Because of using colors the deisgn and build intent is clearer. too. 

If you're planing to create a BOM in a drawing you have to use components anyway, because bodies don't show up in the BOM.