Errors often occur in imported files. These are various types of irregularities, e.g. invalid wall, topology errors, breaks etc. You can fix some of them during import diagnostics, but there is no rule on how many and what types of errors. Sometimes some errors can be fixed, but others appear… Today, however, I would like to draw attention to another situation....
We use various effective techniques to model advanced shapes. However, you cannot always use different SOLIDWORKS features interchangeably. An example is drawings on the surface, where you need to draw something around. This has applications in bottle design, in the processing of scanned elements, in repairing rounding (by filling with a surface) and many other areas. If you draw a sketch on a plane and perform a Projection....
Extruding a surface is equivalent to the Extrude Boss/Base operation from solid modeling. Allows you to extrude a surface from a sketch in two directions. However, a less known functionality of Surface Extrusion is the ability to create an extrusion on an existing surface from a wall. You can extrude a planar face when selected with ALT or a 3D face. For non-planar faces, remember the direction vector, which can....
Different features in SOLIDWORKS have different uses. Radial surface spreading is mainly used to create parting surfaces and faces in molds. But it also finds less typical use, e.g. to make the shape of the deformed washer. Of course, you can use this operation as you wish, remember though, that it is not normally found on the Surfaces tab. So you can add it...
