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Greetings everyone!
I'm following this new method & trying to get my design done. This includes the use of Swept Volume command.
I'll highlight the steps below, just so that you guys can get the idea (can't upload the part file for this one, sorry).
- Creating the base surface, the tool, and sketch (can be an alphabet/number/symbol, etc.)
- Using thicken command on the base surface.
- Extracting the thich body multiple no of times (this, according to me, is needed to bypass the error popping up for me while using swept volume.)
- Projecting the sketch of the section on the bottom surface (offset face)
- Using Swept Volume to sweep the tool along two paths (I have fillet in the sketch, which is why it needs the swept volume twice, but the problem is swept volume can't sweep the tool on the body created earlier in the first pass of swept volume. This might be a little confusing. let me make it more simple. After the first pass of Swept Volume, I get a section engrave of the solid body like this.
I have hidden other features just to make it clear. Now Swept volume just doesn't work for the same tool and same body but different path (fillet). So I extract the solid body to get a fresh new solid. I do the second pass of swept volume on that one.
- Finally I intersect both the bodies.
You can see that there is some unwanted solid portion left in between. I have tried doing multiple things like Extacting a surface out of the section, trimming, trim & extend, patch, extruded cut, delete face, replace face.
There should be some command in NX to just remove this measly useless section (just kidding, every solid portion created in NX is useful).
By the way, the design looks like this.
Anyways, now that I have explained everything, I will leave this for you guys to solve.
Help me out.
Regards
Paras Raina