Wondering if this swept profile is possible

[Siress]

This is the type of check valve found in veins. I would like to know of a way to model these valves quickly. My intuition was that I could revolve sweep the profile with a constraint on the inner diameter of the tube. This doesn't appear to work (although it showed a preview of such while I was playing around with the settings...go figure.)

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
-Siress

 

[ChrisDuncan]

try using a spline for the small bottom oval

here's your loft method with a spline oval, a flat bottom and just 2 deg draft on the top tangent surface to get the loft to work.

I couldn't get the sweep method to turn the sharp corner on the bottom spline oval

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...-67c2-41f0-8e65-b39b991212d3&file=VALVE-4.JPG

 

[mjcole]

Chris,

Glad you enjoyed my model your surfaces look good. Try to see if you can do a Surface-Surface Loft using the two surfaces to get a solid instead of knitting and using thicken with Make Solid Body.

I see you have Real View enabled. I'm currently using an unsupported card but I do my own tech support. I've always hated the classification of Gaming/CAD Graphics Cards. You'd think 1 card could do both but then the Card Companies wouldn't make as much money.


Michael