Boolean remove

[GI George]

I am trying to make up some soft jaws to hold a part, I want to Boolean remove my part from my solid jaws that I have modeled up. Is there a way to keep the part from disappearing when I remove the part? I think I could just make a copy of the part but it should be easier than that.

 

Thanks for any help.

[Chris Rizzo]

That's a great method. Use the N/A remove. Which is the non-associative and you can keep or delete either/or/both target and tool.

[GI George]

Thanks Chris. I will give that a try.

[Larry Callahan]

Is there any way to keep the associativity? For the life of me I can't get this to work in X2. I end up killing one or the other and would rater not lose the associativity.

[Matt Sumner]

It all depends on whether or not you are breaking the original solid into several parts. If you are breaking it up then you can't keep the associativity.

 

If you trim the driving entities and create two solids instead of one then you can keep your associativity. It's more work but it might give you the end result that you're after.

[BenK]

I really need to get solids. Things like this would be alot easier.