Offsetting all surfaces to represent paint 3

[chrisnewzealand]

I have a model of a door. I would like to offset all surfaces by 0.5mm to represent painting the door, this would create a new solid model which I could put into an assembly and then I could define components from the painted door.

How would I do this? Is it a good idea?

Thanks in advance, Chris.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If it works for you and your company ... it's a good idea.

One method could be to create a zero-offset surface from the faces to be painted, and then thicken that surface to represent the paint. Make sure the Merge option is not selected.

 

[ctopher]

I like CBLs suggestion.
A few years ago I sent a suggestion to SW to add a feature to add paint or any other type of material to a surface. It would help with tolerances and FEA, for example.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
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[TheTick]

Copy the body of the item to be painted. Use "Delete Face" to delete a single face from the copied body without patching. You will then have a near-complete surface body for offsetting.

What to do about the missing face? Copy it (zero offset) before deleting, then knit the offset to the original surface body.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Excellent tip, Tick.

 

[chrisnewzealand]

Yes, that tip worked very well Tick!

 

[fcsuper]

Tick, could I ask you to do a simple write-up with an example and post that on legion and/or your own blog?

Matt Lorono
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