Resolving small edges when creating Tapered Surfaces

[RBobroski]

Hi guys,

I'm creating a plastic rotationally molded part with the parting line in the middle. I'm trying to extrude surfaces with a 1 degree taper however I am having issues with tiny surfaces appearing. It appears that both surfaces are tapering normal to the sketch; despite both sketches being tangent (image 1 and image 2) after I apply the taper I am left with a tiny surface at the tangent point I can't seem to resolve. Does anybody have some suggestions on how to go about fixing this? Images 3 and 4 show the small edge that is resulting.

 

[dgallup]

Have you played around with the accuracy? I'm not too sure that will fix the problem, that is usually the solution when you get regen errors because there are tiny edges smaller than the accuracy setting. In your case it seems you are getting tiny edges when you think there should be none. You might be better off applying the taper as a separate feature.

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[RBobroski]

My accuracy is already at .0001". Yeah I might have to; and I was all excited at this easy draft-within-extrusion feature!