{"id":27342,"date":"2020-11-09T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=27342"},"modified":"2020-11-03T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:42:07","slug":"answers-to-commonly-asked-surface-and-advanced-modelling-problems-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/11\/answers-to-commonly-asked-surface-and-advanced-modelling-problems-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Answers to commonly asked surface and advanced modelling problems (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this blog you will find tools to remove unwanted surfaces or a few direct editing tools. And to save your file into separated part files and assembly.<\/p>\n

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(faces that resulted after split feature)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To remove this part, there are multiple ways, for example, use offset surface to copy the surface first:<\/p>\n

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Noticing that the surface is the exact same size of the selected face, we have to extend it in order to \u201coverlap\u201d the bit of solid:<\/p>\n

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(You should include the side edges as well to avoid resulting zero-thickness faces)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, you could use surface cut to remove the excess solid part, pay attention to the cut direction and solid to be cut:<\/p>\n

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Or you could try a different approach, for example use delete face to remove the surfaces:<\/p>\n

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Create a loft surface from the two edges, so that you could trim and knit the surfaces to form solid again:<\/p>\n

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Speaking of delete face, there are two additional options \u201cdelete and patch\u201d and \u201cdelete and fill\u201d; both features are designed to remove selected faces and close up the void using the surrounding edges.<\/p>\n

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Using delete and patch, it allows you to remove selected face and fill it up by extending the surrounding faces:<\/p>\n

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And delete and fill allows you to remove selected face and fill it up based on the surrounding edges instead (tangency to face is optional)<\/p>\n

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Delete and fill can basically fill any faces with continues edges:<\/p>\n

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As your part file is all tidied up, it is time to save the solid bodies to individual part files. Mainly there are two ways to do so:<\/p>\n

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  1. Using insert into new part, you can save out one or more solid bodies into a new part file, to do this, simply right click the solid body\/bodies you would like to save as a new part file:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. If you want to save all solid bodies into separated part files, you could use \u201csave bodies\u201d instead by right-clicking the solid bodies folder, you could even create a new assembly at the same time:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      (Hints: you could edit the solid body name first to be assigned as the new part filename automatically)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      Using both methods, it allows you to create a part file with link to the source part. If you wish to break the link to prevent update or change, right click the import feature to lock\/break the external reference:<\/p>\n

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      The following symbols display after the name of the part or feature:<\/p>\n

      \u2013>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 External reference<\/p>\n

      -> *\u00a0 Locked external reference<\/p>\n

      -> x\u00a0 Broken external reference<\/p>\n

      -> ?\u00a0 Out-of-context external reference<\/p>\n

      {->}\u00a0 Feature contains a sketch with external references<\/p>\n

      This is the last part of the blog of \u201cAnswers to commonly asked surface and advanced modelling problems\u201d. I believe we have gone through some of the major issues that you might face during model creation. If you have further questions or modelling difficulties, leave a question in the comment and we as SolidWorks community will gladly provide help. See you soon.<\/p>\n

      Written by Jason Tse, Intelligent CAD\/CAM Technology Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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