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Difficulty Splitting Hollow Trapezoidal Prism into Individual Sides

justin_a_laviolette
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Difficulty Splitting Hollow Trapezoidal Prism into Individual Sides

justin_a_laviolette
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Hello all, Im trying to seperate this body into 4 parts, i need those edges to be mitred.
Ive tried a few different methods to accomplish the split body, construction planes and surfaces.
 When I tried splitting the body, I received an error stating the tool doesn't intersect the body. Extending the tool cuts parts I do not intend to cut. (you can see the cut in the back where the radius of the extension extended into the back.
This would be fine, i could just join the two parts of the back together to fix that problem, but then that causes issues with the parameters when i change the dimensions of the part later on, i get strange artifacts.
The cutting tool does indeed extend past the body out the front, top and bottom. Is the problem related to the tool not extending out the back of the part?
Im pretty stumped on this one. Im sure there is a better way of doing this that im just not aware of.
In a nutshell: I'm looking for guidance on how to correctly split this hollow prism into its four sides, with miter joints at the corners. Any advice or alternative methods would be greatly appreciated.


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TheCADWhisperer
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This will be easy - some lines and then Split Body. 
@justin_a_laviolette 

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

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davebYYPCU
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In those pics, the cutter does not provide 2 bodies.  Modify the the cutter to an L shape and cut 2 corners at the same time.  Corner 3 and 4 would work with those pics, but Split body, must provide at least one new body in the process.

 

Can be cut lines in a sketch, as mentioned.

 

Might help....

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justin_a_laviolette
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Yes sure, here it is, thank you!

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davebYYPCU
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The front panel is done with the added lines in sketch 1.

The rear panel is done with construction planes.

 

 

Might help...

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justin_a_laviolette
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Interesting, i had done something like that but i had 2 tools instead of connecting them into into the one tool.

Thanks a bunch for that tip!

Really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

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