Help with Holes

[Anonymous]

So I have a hole cut out into this Valve Cover, but I need it to wrap around with a lip. I hope the screen shot explains better what I'm trying to do.

[HughesTooling]

Use plane along path to create a plane at one end the sketch your profile and sweep. Or maybe a simple pipe feature might work. 

Something that might cause a problem is the line here

Are the 2 diameters different, is there supposed to be a join here or do you have a mismatch error?

Mark

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Can you File -> Export your design and upload it here? Otherwise it's just a guessing game. One guess based answer could be:

• Create a sketch on the flat surface
• Sketch -> Project / Inlcude -> Project the hole into that sketch
• Offset that projection to the desired thickness
• Close the profile by using lines
• Close the sketch
• Extrude the profile to the desired length

[Anonymous]

When I get home this evening I will export the file to see if what your talking about can help, cuz i also need help to create a valley on particle line. I will the file this evening.

[Anonymous]

Will this work?

https://a360.co/2Oi6fRZ

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Will this work?

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Attaching the file directly here works even better.

Sketch1 is not fully defined.

[Anonymous]

Here is a DXF file, i hope this will work till I get home.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Why did you Attach this dxf file?

[Anonymous]

I have no clue what I'm doing and I'm doing this from my work computer....sorry.

[Anonymous]

I will attempt to do this when I get off work, but I'm not sure I'm that skilled but I will try.

[chrisplyler]

Just copy my steps from the video. Pause the video as necessary and go one step at a time. After you've done it once, you realize that it's easy.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Thx for screencasting my guessed steps. I was low at time. 

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much, worked perfectly. I have one last thing I need a groove cut out on this line, the line is the center line. How do i get it to cut a groove for like a gasket for example.

[chrisplyler]

You will notice that I get errors when trying to Sweep the groove into the shaft opening. I don't know why. But no problem, I just use a Revolve instead.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Here is my version. Just for educational reasons I've removed your design and just kept the first sketch. You've used to many unnecessary steps and some features that are not needed. If you now would finally fully define your sketch by creating dimensions and constrains until all the sketch lines are black your design would be much more robust to changes.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

I've missed to attach the export.

[michallach81]

Without getting into why few things should be done differently, one tip might be useful, to utilize geometry we already have:

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Jip, I was thinking about this, too. I didn't picked this solution because my assumption was, that the given lines should be used.

[michallach81]

mine is just another tip, will work for certain workflows.