I've had SolidWorks about 2 weeks and I love it - with someexceptions. I'm sure you guys can remedy that situation.
I'm trying to create an editable model of a 4-valve exhaust portthat will be used for CNC machining. I have surfaces of ahand-ported head that I've imported and copied using 2 boundarysurfaces. I tried using lofts but I was unable to achieve smoothsurfaces. Here's what I did:
1. Imported surface
2. Built centerline curves through ports using 3D sketch
3. Created points along those curves and created planes normal tocurve
4. Used Intersection Curve command to create chains for reference
(The imported surfaces were made up of many small patches and theintersection curves wound up with multiple points per chain - notalways the same number of points per chain)
5. Used Fit Spline command to create splines that I can use forloft or boundary
6. Created both boundary surfaces, trimmed overlapping surfaces andknitted together
What I wound up with is a surface that desperately needs a moreuniform divider between the ports! The surface looks terrible andthe divider has some unwanted curvature.
How can I fix this? Better yet, How can I model this geometry moreefficiently in SWx 2009? How would you SolidWorks Jedis do this? Inthe future I'll be creating the surfaces from scratch.
Thanks for the help! I am a big believer in forums and this one isa very impressive community. You'll see me here often!SolidworksSurfacing
I'm trying to create an editable model of a 4-valve exhaust portthat will be used for CNC machining. I have surfaces of ahand-ported head that I've imported and copied using 2 boundarysurfaces. I tried using lofts but I was unable to achieve smoothsurfaces. Here's what I did:
1. Imported surface
2. Built centerline curves through ports using 3D sketch
3. Created points along those curves and created planes normal tocurve
4. Used Intersection Curve command to create chains for reference
(The imported surfaces were made up of many small patches and theintersection curves wound up with multiple points per chain - notalways the same number of points per chain)
5. Used Fit Spline command to create splines that I can use forloft or boundary
6. Created both boundary surfaces, trimmed overlapping surfaces andknitted together
What I wound up with is a surface that desperately needs a moreuniform divider between the ports! The surface looks terrible andthe divider has some unwanted curvature.
How can I fix this? Better yet, How can I model this geometry moreefficiently in SWx 2009? How would you SolidWorks Jedis do this? Inthe future I'll be creating the surfaces from scratch.
Thanks for the help! I am a big believer in forums and this one isa very impressive community. You'll see me here often!SolidworksSurfacing
