half moon extrusion on flat face 2

[Scarecrow]

Hi all,
i'm new to solidworks, (acad user). I'm designing products for my company

http://www.scatmat.com.

Currently i am trying to create a series of ball extrusions on a flat face. I managed to get a rectangular extrusion ok, but it won't let me put the fillets in that would turn the rectangle into a sphere???
Any takers on this

Thanks

Gerry Bolda

http://www.scatmat.com

 

[ecampos]

How about revolving a half circle around an axis to make a sphere?
Edson Campos
edsoncampos@earthlink.net

 

[SBaugh]

Scarecrow,

You can't make fillets that are so big that the line will no longer exist. That's why you use an arc instead of two fillets and a line. Like what ecampos has posted above. You make the half moon shape and a line connecting the two endspoints. Then you can either rotate them about an axis you make, or use a temporary axis. And walla a sphere.

Hope that helps, Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

 

[Scarecrow]

A half moon shape!! Of course. Jeezus H, that was too easy. Time to put on my lateral thinking cap.
Thanks for the help guys.
Gerrry Bolda