Projecting a profile onto a plane 1

[Adrian2]

Dear Folks;

I want to import the profile of a pump impeller vane from autocad into solidworks 2001. The geometry must not be altered by any automatic relations within SW. The geometry is then placed onto the TOP plane in the SW model. Then it is projected onto a plane which is below the first plane and at an angle of 24 degrees to it.

Is this possible ?, could someone give me some pointers on how to go about it.

Kind Regards

Adrian

 

[rockguy]

Open your Autocad file up in solidworks in its own part file. (Example. "open", File type-"dwg", find your file, you want to open the file as a SolidWorks part. Make sure add automatic constraints is checked off. The AutoCad drawing will open up into a SolidWorks part file.

Now you could set up your planes in this file and continue or you can "copy", "paste" the sketch into an existing SolidWorks part file. Once you have the sketch where you want it you should be able to open a sketch on your plane @ 24 degrees and then convert entites onto into that sketch. I suppose another method would be to actually create a feature on the 24 degree plane and then project a splitline onto the surface using your AutoCad profile as the sketch for the split line.