VN1981
Aerospace
- Sep 29, 2015
- 186
Primarily a Catia user here...kinda have to work on Solidworks as well...probably will work on both CAD packages as needed.
So we receive a lot of assemblies in STEP format and after importing in to SW, if I need to edit individual parts within assembly, how do I go about it? In Catia, I just double click on the desired part and the workbench switches to Part module from Assembly. Currently, in SW, I understand one needs to right click and select Edit Part (is also accessible from Ribbon bar?) but in this instance, I just don't see Edit Part icon.
Secondly, one of the routine operations I do is extract intersects between my geometry & a bunch of planes. Once I get the intersects, I need to split the intersect in to two segments (my intersects are aerofoils and I want to split it in to top & bottom ones). In SW, I am getting intersects as 3D sketch but I am not able to figure out how to split the 3D Sketch in to two curves.
In Catia, I usually create a surface that goes from leading edge to trailing edge and use that to split the intersects. I am hoping to follow similar procedure in SW but not sure if its possible.
Hoping to get some pointers here. I am sure I have other questions as days go by...
Thanks in advance...
So we receive a lot of assemblies in STEP format and after importing in to SW, if I need to edit individual parts within assembly, how do I go about it? In Catia, I just double click on the desired part and the workbench switches to Part module from Assembly. Currently, in SW, I understand one needs to right click and select Edit Part (is also accessible from Ribbon bar?) but in this instance, I just don't see Edit Part icon.
Secondly, one of the routine operations I do is extract intersects between my geometry & a bunch of planes. Once I get the intersects, I need to split the intersect in to two segments (my intersects are aerofoils and I want to split it in to top & bottom ones). In SW, I am getting intersects as 3D sketch but I am not able to figure out how to split the 3D Sketch in to two curves.
In Catia, I usually create a surface that goes from leading edge to trailing edge and use that to split the intersects. I am hoping to follow similar procedure in SW but not sure if its possible.
Hoping to get some pointers here. I am sure I have other questions as days go by...
Thanks in advance...