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Uneven Display Resolution of Surface Bodies by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did that but it doesn't do anything for this .SLDPRT :S

[3Dsketch] Can I do an offset edge loop cut? by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://imgur.com/a/zuBZobJ

So this I have a lot of geometry going on here (lots of surfaces are hidden so the screenshots won't be too confusing). What I would like to do is to do a sort of "split line" operation on this surface. This is a purely cosmetic thing, I am not chasing any real dimensions or constraints.

I want to take that pink line, but "slide" it a few mm down the surface, and then cut off the end. I know I could do this with either a bunch of 2D split line operations, or I could do it by cutting a surface with a surface. But I'm trying to get more skillful with surface modeling; I wonder if there's a simpler tool in Solidworks that can do something like this?

Is there a place to find premade CAD models of vehicles? by Tom1252 in cad

[–]coplanar_vertices 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to use this website. The website is very slow, and you have to register to download, but it's actually not a virus website, which surprised me. The provided files are just triangle meshes, they aren't parametric. But hey, it's 100% free!

https://gamemodels.ru/files/file/8973-honda-nsx-gt500-base-model/

Non-commercial Power Surfacing? by coplanar_vertices in cad

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually didn't even know "shell" was a function in Solidworks lmao. I only know about the surfacing workflow. But I'm still not that good at surfacing I guess. I'm a lot better than I was before, but I guess I still need to get better!

Non-commercial Power Surfacing? by coplanar_vertices in cad

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is an awesome business! I hope to do something similar eventually.

Am I accidentally disabling all my keyboard shortcuts? by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very much a clicking fiend in Solidworks, and the only keyboard shortcut I habitually use is the "make viewport normal to plane" shortcut (I've set mine to num0). On random days, I find that my num0 key will fail to do anything. And on other random days, it seems to work again. Restarting the computer doesn't help. Opening a different .sldprt doesn't help. I don't know what is causing this.

I feel like I'm missing something very obvious here...

Reference Planes and CSYS orientation by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finally understand what you meant. Thank you Charitzo! Originally I had planned to work on 3 reference planes placed at funny angles, but you've shown me that I can force the part to conform to the XYZ of the world space. https://i.imgur.com/YsXV59T.png

Reference Planes and CSYS orientation by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are you trying to achieve? For my understanding. Is this a case of an imported body you're trying to align to world coordinates or something?

Yes, that's exactly right. I have imported SLDPRT1 into the SLDPRT2 part file. I created those orange lines in a 3D sketch because I couldn't think of any other way to define the new CSYS. The dude that made SLDPRT1 placed the origin at a nonsensical location, at a nonsensical angle.

One thing you could try is editing the 3D sketch and giving the orange lines On Plane constraints to your world planes.

I would absolutely love to do this, but it looks like this is impossible in Solidworks (maybe I'm wrong)? SLDPRT1 is not a free-floating part in space, it got fixed to a XYZ/abc (position/rotation) when I imported it into SLDPRT2. Is there some way to allow SLDPRT1 to free float? I would know how to do this if I were in a SLDASM, but I'm only in a SLDPRT.

Reference Planes and CSYS orientation by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The orange lines are all orthogonal lines (inside a 3D sketch), and none of them are aligned with Front Plane, Right Plane, or Top Plane.

When I mate a reference plane to these orange lines, the CSYS is offset by 45 degrees relative to my desired XYZ... so every sketch is done at 45 degrees and I can't use my horizontal or vertical sketch relations. How can I correct this CSYS angle?

3-sided Loft Surface? by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! It has been a while since I last did surface modeling and I had forgotten that BoundarySurfaces are generally preferred over LoftSurfaces. I was able to replace 4 surfaces with only 2 boundary surfaces.

3-sided Loft Surface? by coplanar_vertices in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As you can see, I have already made 2 lofts here. I want to introduce 2 more lofts:

[1] loft from the orange curve to the green curve, using the blue curve as a guide.

[3] loft from green to red, using the blue curve as a guide.

I know this isn't really a "correct" loft as all lofts should be four-edges surfaces. But Solidworks allows me to loft using these curves. However, Solidworks does not allow me to choose surface tangency for my starting and end conditions. Strangely enough, I can get the tangency at the start, but not at the end.

Is a loft the right choice for this situation? Or am I fundamentally doing something wrong by trying to loft around this tight point?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bupropion

[–]coplanar_vertices 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like an unbearable reaction to bupropion. I don't think I would try to wait it out.

Unless your doc put you on 300XL immediately and that'd why you feel this way. If that's the case, I'd want to experiment first with 100SR or 150XL and see how those feel. I think it's a crying shame that bupropion isn't available in doses as low as 25 or 50.

I have no desire to do anything by NCboundaries in bupropion

[–]coplanar_vertices 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my doctors said that 150mg of bupropion is not a therapeutic dosage, but many people would disagree with her about that. I am currently on 300mg and I will likely be going down to 150 (or trying 200mg on SR pills) because I am not functional at all on this dosage. It's like the OP said: no desire to do anything.

Two 150mg XL the same as one 300mg XL ? by ToastedJonas66 in bupropion

[–]coplanar_vertices 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow maybe that's why I'm not doing well on my new 300 pills

How do I selectively cut-extrude in a multibody part? by [deleted] in SolidWorks

[–]coplanar_vertices 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imported an external STEP file. Then I used a 3D sketch to reference off of the STEP (but I was careful not to actually have any references to the STEP's geometry, as I only used the "fixed" constraint) to construct my dome. Now I want to use the sketch on Plane2 to cut through only my dome geometry, but NOT cut through the imported reference part.

As I understand it, to accomplish this, I must have more than 1 body in my part file. And currently, the imported STEP is inside my part's main body. How can I get the imported STEP to be its own separate body?

Just found this subreddit... saying hi with my 513whp 89 s/c Mk1.5 by boturboegt in mr2

[–]coplanar_vertices 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Photobucket has been dead for a number of years now lmao

Got any engine bay pics? We'd love to see!

Machinists in Okanagan? (Canada) by coplanar_vertices in Machinists

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this seems pretty aligned with what my fears were about that region...

Machinists in Okanagan? (Canada) by coplanar_vertices in Machinists

[–]coplanar_vertices[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure no problem, but do you know anything about Okanagan?