Thanks a bunch for the effort Wes, it's definetely appreciated. Let me know what you want to do where the flanges intersect at the corners and I'll see if I can fix that. If you give me dimensions I can finish it up and send you an IGES. I've got the model here looking about like what you posted. If you just stick them on the edges created by the shell and conversion, if you ever get it to do that for you, they'll be at different levels and will require fiddling with offsets to get them where they need to be. The other thing that 'fixes', is to let you create the walls to the proper length so the bottom flanges are all on the same plane.
I think that may be your only choice with these angled walls anyway. I usually create the base flange with the corner reliefs modeled in, rather than let the system insert them with the bends. Your best bet might be to model it in sheet metal. It also didn't like trying to rip across the flange, gave me a geometry too complex error. That will let me add the wall with straight sides, but if I angle them out parallel with the other faces it bonks. Works fine, but when I add the 4th wall it won't put any relief other than a tear in it no matter what I select. I tried shelling the bottom, and the 'tail' end, to leave the other 3 faces. If any of you would like to see the file, I'd be more than happy to email it to you as a solid.Īs a note, I've been trying all this without the 'tail' and the flange.my thinking is that it would be easier to add those two features later. This is an 18ga mild steel part that I would really like to have to our laser/forming shop on Monday.
#SOLIDWORKS 2005 2006 HOW TO#
750" (nominal being 1/16") with no effect, and I can't find how to add reliefs by any other means that the auto-relief function, with which I've tried numerous shapes and ratio's with no luck. Please try a different radius or add reliefs." Could not create a bend with the given radius. When I insert bends, it comes up with an error that says, "Attempt to add auto-relief failed. The method all my reference material suggests is to make a solid the correct shape, then rip the corners and insert bends. I can do that easy enough, but if I apply the same exact methods and sequences on a box with angled sides, it isn't at all happy with me.
#SOLIDWORKS 2005 2006 PLUS#
Feel free to use these for your user group meetings, internal company training and we hear that many schools use them for their exercises.Anybody running 2005 SolidWorks and are familiar with the sheetmetal functions? I have four books on SolidWorks, plus the online tutorial, and all of them use simple boxes with 90º sides as examples.
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