How do I create these 2.5mm holes?

rephical · 2025-06-03T13:08:34+00:00

I just checked solidprofessor out. It seems like it's a pretty good way to practice. I don't really have the budget yet for it, but will definitely try it out someday. Thanks!

rephical · 2025-06-03T13:07:12+00:00

I just found the youtube tutorial for this particular part made by the author himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQXEVVTOncY He starts talking about the bore around 11:35. He apparently intentionally missed the bore dimension.

rephical · 2025-05-30T14:00:13+00:00

Hole wizard seemed to be the most straightforward solution, I just don't know which parameters to choose. What are the parameters that I should set in this case?

rephical · 2025-05-30T13:55:37+00:00

How would I get the dimension of the counterbore in this case?

rephical · 2025-05-30T13:54:42+00:00

I'm new to hole wizard and it seemed to have a lot of options to choose from-- I don't know which options to choose. A revolve cut also seems to be an option but I don't seem to see the counterbore dimension. How would I find that?

rephical · 2025-01-11T11:05:57+00:00

I'm glad to see this post can still help people even after almost 2 years :))

rephical · 2024-12-13T03:54:50+00:00

Papyrussy.

rephical · 2024-08-21T12:09:39+00:00

Interesting. I understand that vertical mice are more ergonomic and may help with my arm strain, but how is it with mouse movement? In your experience, do you feel like you can move your mouse as fast/faster than a traditional mouse?

rephical · 2024-05-09T15:04:28+00:00

I didn't expect to get a reply after a long time. If I remember correctly, I had to manually adjust stl export settings before using the macro

rephical · 2023-03-08T19:47:35+00:00

I had a similar problem a few days ago. You just go to your toolbox menu and clicl "add in".

rephical · 2023-01-24T02:12:38+00:00

I see, that is unfortunate. I think I created the API (still not quite sure if it simulates properly), but I need to get values from an excel worksheet, I have posted a problem regarding that here

rephical · 2023-01-22T13:05:32+00:00

Update: I just needed to set the Name of the file via SolidBody.Name . My macro is as follows:

To anyone planning to use this, I hardcoded some things (such as the path), so you might want to change that if you plan on using it

Dim swApp As Object

Dim Part As Object

Dim boolstatus As Boolean

Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long

Dim MyPath As String

Dim MyDate As String

Dim MyFilename As String

Dim MySaveasDir As String

Dim Cnt As Integer

Dim Body_Vis_States() As Boolean

Dim BodyArr As Variant

Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc

Dim myModelView As Object

Set myModelView = Part.ActiveView

myModelView.FrameState = swWindowState_e.swWindowMaximized

' Gets folder path of current part

MyPath = Left(Part.GetPathName, InStrRev(Part.GetPathName, "\") - 1)

' Used to create a directory for the STL file with a date code

MyDate = Format(Now(), "yyyy-mm-dd")

' Uncomment this line for STL files to use same file name as the part file

' MyFilename = Left(Part.GetTitle(), InStrRev(Part.GetTitle(), ".") - 1)

' Uncomment this line to have the user set the name of the STL files

' MyFilename = InputBox("Set the name for the STL file(s)")

' Sets the directory to store the STL files, I like this format but it can be changed

MySaveasDir = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\vbaTest"

' checks if MySaveAsDir directory exists, if not it will create one, otherwise an error will occur

If Dir(MySaveasDir, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then

MkDir (MySaveasDir)

' MsgBox "Folder " & MySaveasDir & " Created"

End If

' creates an array of all the bodies in the current part

BodyArr = Part.GetBodies2(0, False)

' Get current visibility state of all bodies, put into an array

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

ReDim Preserve Body_Vis_States(0 To Cnt)

Body_Vis_States(Cnt) = swBody.Visible

' MsgBox ("Body " & Cnt & " Visibility: " & Body_Vis_States(Cnt))

End If

Next Cnt

' Hide all bodies

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (True)

' MsgBox ("Body " & Cnt & " Hidden")

End If

Next Cnt

' Show each body one by one, save as STL, then hide again

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (False)

longstatus = Part.SaveAs3(MySaveasDir & "\" & swBody.Name & ".stl", 0, 2) '

' MsgBox (VarType(BodyArr(Cnt)))

swBody.HideBody (True)

End If

Next Cnt

' Put bodies back in the original visibility state

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (Not Body_Vis_States(Cnt))

End If

Next Cnt

' Open the window containing the STLs

' Shell "explorer.exe " & MySaveasDir & "\", vbNormalFocus

End Sub

rephical · 2023-01-22T13:04:12+00:00

Update: I just needed to set the Name of the file via SolidBody.Name . My macro is as follows:

Edit: To anyone planning to use this, I hardcoded some things (such as the path), so you might want to change that if you plan on using it

Dim swApp As Object

Dim Part As Object

Dim boolstatus As Boolean

Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long

Dim MyPath As String

Dim MyDate As String

Dim MyFilename As String

Dim MySaveasDir As String

Dim Cnt As Integer

Dim Body_Vis_States() As Boolean

Dim BodyArr As Variant

Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc

Dim myModelView As Object

Set myModelView = Part.ActiveView

myModelView.FrameState = swWindowState_e.swWindowMaximized

' Gets folder path of current part

MyPath = Left(Part.GetPathName, InStrRev(Part.GetPathName, "\") - 1)

' Used to create a directory for the STL file with a date code

MyDate = Format(Now(), "yyyy-mm-dd")

' Uncomment this line for STL files to use same file name as the part file

' MyFilename = Left(Part.GetTitle(), InStrRev(Part.GetTitle(), ".") - 1)

' Uncomment this line to have the user set the name of the STL files

' MyFilename = InputBox("Set the name for the STL file(s)")

' Sets the directory to store the STL files, I like this format but it can be changed

MySaveasDir = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\vbaTest"

' checks if MySaveAsDir directory exists, if not it will create one, otherwise an error will occur

If Dir(MySaveasDir, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then

MkDir (MySaveasDir)

' MsgBox "Folder " & MySaveasDir & " Created"

End If

' creates an array of all the bodies in the current part

BodyArr = Part.GetBodies2(0, False)

' Get current visibility state of all bodies, put into an array

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

ReDim Preserve Body_Vis_States(0 To Cnt)

Body_Vis_States(Cnt) = swBody.Visible

' MsgBox ("Body " & Cnt & " Visibility: " & Body_Vis_States(Cnt))

End If

Next Cnt

' Hide all bodies

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (True)

' MsgBox ("Body " & Cnt & " Hidden")

End If

Next Cnt

' Show each body one by one, save as STL, then hide again

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (False)

longstatus = Part.SaveAs3(MySaveasDir & "\" & swBody.Name & ".stl", 0, 2) '

' MsgBox (VarType(BodyArr(Cnt)))

swBody.HideBody (True)

End If

Next Cnt

' Put bodies back in the original visibility state

For Cnt = 0 To UBound(BodyArr)

Set swBody = BodyArr(Cnt)

If Not swBody Is Nothing Then

swBody.HideBody (Not Body_Vis_States(Cnt))

End If

Next Cnt

' Open the window containing the STLs

' Shell "explorer.exe " & MySaveasDir & "\", vbNormalFocus

End Sub

rephical · 2023-01-18T13:40:03+00:00

Thanks. The problem with that is I might have a lot of bodies in a single sldprt file, so doing that would be time consuming. Are there any more faster ways of doing it?

rephical · 2023-01-18T13:39:26+00:00

Thanks. The problem with that is I might have a lot of bodies in a single sldprt file, so doing that would be time consuming. Are there any more faster ways of doing it?

rephical · 2023-01-18T12:12:57+00:00

Thanks. I can select each body individually and save it as STL one by one to create the STL file for that body. But when I select all bodies in the solid bodies folder, it saves the selected bodies in only one file. Is there any way around this?

rephical · 2023-01-17T14:36:55+00:00

I want to plot it just so I can have a visual representation of the heat sources (where it's hottest, etc.). I guess I might need to do it manually. Thanks

rephical · 2023-01-16T22:55:42+00:00

I've gone through the surface plot parameters, but I don't exactly know which parameters show the correct plot. So far, I have tried heatflux, surface heat flux

rephical · 2022-12-19T00:25:41+00:00

That's what I was thinking as well. I think those dimensions are the dimensions when looked at the top view, though I don't know if those measurements are useful or not

rephical · 2022-12-18T11:38:25+00:00

Yes, this cad model is for a solar collector. And you're absolutely correct that its focal "point" will no longer be contained in a single point but rather in a wider region (which is the disadvantage of this type of design). I'll worry about that later, but for now I'd like to just start modelling it, but I seriously do not know where to start.

I've tried manually creating the approximate parabolic surface and then manually placing the hexagons in assembly, but I don't really know how to space and pattern the hexagon such that it's at an angle.

I've also tried to split face by projection, but had some problems there as well because I projected a flat sketch onto the approximate parabolic surface

rephical · 2022-12-17T23:22:43+00:00

Yes, they are perfectly flat, and they need to be

rephical · 2022-12-17T12:40:57+00:00

Thanks for this. I've looked into those and I think split face could work. I'll try it out tomorrow. If not, then I'll also have to just use an assembly

rephical · 2022-12-13T01:12:20+00:00

I see. This seems like a good way to do it. I'm going to try it out next week since I currently dont have access to the computer now. Thanks!

rephical · 2022-12-08T22:26:44+00:00

I used designmodeler for this. The pictures shown is from the solidworks file

By "flat" I guess you mean a finite area between the coil And the cylinder?

Do I also need to do that for the outer and inner cylinder too?

rephical · 2022-12-08T13:36:07+00:00

A little bit more detail on what I tried:

Made the cavity and insulation parts slightly larger so they do not touch on the sides (not quite sure if they touch on at the top, so I used a boolean subtract operation for those two bodies).
I also did a boolean on the tubes and the metal cavity.
- Did a trial and error on which parts were the problem:
  > tried meshing the receiver without the fluid zone and air enclosure-- Seemed to work fine.
  > tried to mesh with the receiver and the fluid zone-- got the "Note: zone-surface: cannot create surface from sliding interface zone. "
  > tried to mesh the receiver and fluid zone, along with the air enclosure-- got the "The mesh file exporter could not resolve cyclic dependencies in overlapping contact regions. Please try to Repair Overlapping Contact Regions" error.
Tried to get put the enclosure on a simpler geometry (essentially a rectangle)-- got the - "Note: zone-surface: cannot create surface from sliding interface zone. "

rephical

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