Transforming a closed surface to a solid body

[Tad888]

Hi there,

I have been trying to transform a closed surface to a solid body with the stitch command and got no success. I couldn't make it work. So I thought there was maybe a tolerance problem with my closed surface so I tried the same with a very simple cylinder surface caped at both end via the "bounded" command, but again It didn't work. I am getting a stitched and closed surface but never in the process Solid Edge ask me if I want to transform in a solid?

Maybe there is a configuration I have to do? Can you help me on this?

Thanks

 

[Kenny_G]

Try asking on the Solid Edge Community Site located here:

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Solid-Edge/ct-p/solid-edge

You may also include what version your using, what environment you are in (Ordered or Synchronous) and maybe attach the file you are having issues with.

Ken G.

http://grundey.blogspot.com

 

[KENAT]

Once you have your stitched surface, maybe you need to do a Boolean operation?

The little bit of surfacing I did to get a solid from a surface shell I extruded a protrusion bigger than my shell then Boolean subtracted the surface shell from it. You can then use thin wall if required.

However, this is V19 and I'm no surfacing expert.

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[Kenny_G]

My guess you are in the Synch environment which does not work like Ordered... Once surfaces are stitched you need to right mouse click on the Stitched feature and 'Attach' it to create a design body.

Ken G.

http://grundey.blogspot.com

 

[Tad888]

Ok, I was finally able to do it by doing something I found in another thread, which is:

..."Take what you have done and re-apply the stitch command. Then select "stitch" from the feature tree, right click and select "attach", then select "add". This will give you a solid."...

It worked beautifully. But still don't know why sometimes it does work without having to do the above extra steps?