Ideas needed for part creation

[gsejrmech]

I have a situation where I have to come up with a part that fits within a boundary of an assy, (say i have the bucket, i need the water that fills in as a seperate part). I tried the mold creation tip, it didn't work out. Any suggestion wil be appreciated. em @ iahmed@gsedynamics.com. Thnx

 

[baytekk]

Try this, I do it all the time for complex parts that have to fit into other complex parts.
Open your parent part in the part environment, select the shell tool and shrink(shell) the part down by the amount it takes to tangent the inside (or outside) of the parent part. Save the shelled part as: yadayada.ipt and do not save the original. Now you have two parts, in which the parent will contain the child in an assembly environment.
Me thinks your situation is more complex than this, but I use this technique sucessfully on some quite complex parts.

If you're in an assembly environment that requires your part to fit with multiple parts, then you might have to use the sketches & features that created the surrounding parts as sketches and features applied to "cut" the part in question to fit. This can be time consuming, but rewarding.

 

[oliebol]

What about using derived parts? This is in my opinion the only way to maintain parametric boundaries.

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