Deleting/removing material in assembly

[AeroNucDef]

Hi all

I've reached a dead end in how to do this. Spent hours at work trying to figure this out.

The problem that I have is this.

I've modeled a dished head door (dome door) with a diameter of 2 meters, and I've attached a hinge to the side of it. The hinge is made if square 150mm tubing. Because of some alterations that I had to do the hinge now protrudes through the door surface into the inside of the dish door.

What I need to do is remove the material inside the dish door. I can remove material when it's in a part file by using delete faces in the feature's toolbar, but I can't delete when it's in a assembly file.

Does anyone know of a simple method of removing this unwanted material in a assembly.

I've gone through the help files, but unfortunately there was no help there.

thanks

 

[JMirisola]

You can do an extruded cut or revolved cut in the assembly environment. However, if the cut needs to happen at the part level that's really where you should do it. You can edit the door part while in the assembly, but I'd recommend staying away from in-context relationships if you can.
Check out the help files for more info.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
M9 Defense
My Blog

 

[Gupta65]

Edit the part in assembly mode, copy the required sketch, entities from the other part (this will create in-context relations/reference). Remove all relations/reference of that sketch, define/constrain the sketch and use appropriate material to remove the material.

Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP4.1
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0

 

[AeroNucDef]

Thanks for your replies.
Gupta, I'm going to give your method a try. Going to try it first on my home computer (sw2009).


I've hit another problem with this now. When I got to the office this morning, I started SW (2010 sp2.1) and it has now converted parts of my assembly to surface features!, and also my sketch for the part has disappeared! I'm not sure whats wrong with this software, but it seems to be full of bugs.

I'm having problems with the Hole Wizard, Suppress, Mates, Inserting Components, Assembly Build Times,.... I hope that SW2011 will be a major improvement on this.

 

[JMirisola]

The conversion to surface features sounds more like someone saved your assembly as a part. In 12 years of using SolidWorks, including being an AE, I have never heard of SolidWorks randomly converting an assembly to surfaces.

As for you other issues, all of those issues are indicative of low resources (RAM). What are your system specs? What's the size of your assembly? SolidWorks isn't perfect, but 2010 is a far cry better than, say, 2008.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
M9 Defense
My Blog