revolve feature

[koyote5]

i am attempting to revolve a feature about an axis. sw gives me an error message that it can't do it because the feature touches the axis. there is no other simple way of doing this. any way to get around the problem?

 

[SBaugh]

What verison of SW and SP are you running?

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[Theophilus]

Does your feature move past the axis? If so, that would be a problem. (Is it a feature and not a sketch?)

Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

 

[koyote5]

SW 2003
and no no feature crosses the axis, but two lines border on it

 

[SBaugh]

Are you using some Construction geometry for the axis? If so, then make a colinear relationship to the sketch line and the Construction Geometry.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

Merry Christmas
faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[Dennyd]

koyote5,

Can you show us your sketch? A picture is worth 1k words. This is probably very easy for us to spot the problem if we could see it.

 

[rporter]

Do you have 2 lines ending at the same point on the axis? If so I have found that solidworks dosnt like that.

 

[Theophilus]

As rporter said, two points hitting the axis at one point won't work. This is not so much a SW problem as a logic problem. You have matter coming to a point of no thickness with no space of non-matter. It doesn't work--like dividing one by zero. A tiny gap or a tiny length between the points will solve this.

(If that's what's going on in your case.)

Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com