Tombstone

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Hey,

 

Drawing a tombstone for R&D purposes for our Horiztonal. Make the structure, holes (one side only of 4 sides) and extrude. I have like 200 holes on the one side and it's a lot of memory being taken up. Can you make the extrude 1 solid for all holes. Would it make any diff. anyways?

 

I can't image how much it would bog down if I do the holes extuded on all sides.....

[Guest]

How are you putting the holes in Randy?

 

Are you using hole wizard?

 

You could do a linear array and then a circular, I think, to get all sides.

 

If you are modeling threaded holes make sure you use the cosmetic thread?

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

There is a hole wizard in MCX? Or are we talking about c-hooks?

 

At any rate, no. I drew one and translated it all over the place, then extruded them thru the tombstone.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hi Randy,

 

You should be able to select all of the arcs (200 holes) and extrude them using one extrude operation. Just be sure and click the "Combine Ops" check box. That will give you one extrude operation that cuts all the holes at once. After you extrude cut your holes into the solid, run the "NoHist.dll" Chook. This Chook removes the solids history tree and gives you a "brick" solid which should take up less memory. The main component of your computer that will bog it down is your graphics card. We work with large Mastercam part files every day. Typically 10-50 MB part files. With the NVidia FX3450 (256MB of RAM) our models pan, zoom, and rotate with no problems.

 

HTH,

 

Colin Gilchrist

The Boeing Company

MR2 and Beta test site

[Guest]

Sorry Randy, for some reason I thought you were doing this in Solidworks

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I have been trying this same thing in SW, as I think you responded to another post about something similar....but, no I was doing this in MCX today...SW is just for learning right now, I was in a hurry, and I am more adept at drawing in MCX.