I am looking for the most effiecent method of gettingindividual plates out of a solid. For example a hopper or bin orcover for something.
Presently I make a solid part and then make a differentconfiguration for each plate and isolate the plate by cuttingeverything but. Then I insert the solid part into an assembly fixedat the origin once for each plate, so I have a assembly of multipleinstances of the same part but as different configurations.
The downsides to this method are the hugeness of the assembly fileand I can't turn each plate into a sheetmetal part to flatten whichis a big bummer.
So the last model of a hopper I did the same as above then I made aparasolid of each plate to control file size and to sheetmetal theformed plates. This is good but for all the work it takes and therisk of having to redo it all if there is a design change.
Is this a job for splitparts or does anyone have a good way ofdoing this?
Steve
SolidworksParts And Features
Presently I make a solid part and then make a differentconfiguration for each plate and isolate the plate by cuttingeverything but. Then I insert the solid part into an assembly fixedat the origin once for each plate, so I have a assembly of multipleinstances of the same part but as different configurations.
The downsides to this method are the hugeness of the assembly fileand I can't turn each plate into a sheetmetal part to flatten whichis a big bummer.
So the last model of a hopper I did the same as above then I made aparasolid of each plate to control file size and to sheetmetal theformed plates. This is good but for all the work it takes and therisk of having to redo it all if there is a design change.
Is this a job for splitparts or does anyone have a good way ofdoing this?
Steve
SolidworksParts And Features
