Project Bolt Pattern on Curved Surface ?

[Vector]

I have a part that has a slight radius to the top surface. And would like to place a bolt pattern on top of this surface. I have read the Previous post on Projection, and still not sure.

 

 

Please be specific. I have 2 seperate files. First file is the part drawn with the curved top surface. The second file is the flat bolt pattern. How do I place the bolt pattern on top of the curved NURBS surface.

 

Thanks in advance (TIA)

 

Vector

[Scott Bond]

Hi

Open the surf file.

Merge the bolt pattern file.

Create

Curves

select your surf

done

select/all-arcs

done

doit

 

veiw will give holes norm to table

norm will give holes true to your surf

[EZ3PUTT]

Create, curve, project. You will be asked to select the surface you want to project to. Pick your surface. You will then be asked to select curves(the geometry you want to project), done, do it.

That should get you where you want.

[Vector]

Not working,,Argh!! Cant even upload the file to the cadcam site. Which I have done successfully in the past many times. Our ISP connection could be at fault, its been very slow all week.

 

Can someone except my file via email, and have a look? thanks

 

Vector

[Jean-Simon]

Sure send it to me.

 

Simon

[Zero]

You can send it here too. Make sure you're in the right c/t plane when projecting....

[Vector]

Thanks Jean, Zero !!!

 

 

Email on its way. Zero I couldnt send you the .mc9 file, unless I had your current email address.

 

Thanks

Vector

[Zero]

You should be able to email me from the mail icon on any of my posts.

[Vector]

Problem solved ..

 

Thanks Jean!!!

 

(Hi Vector,

 

I think it’s very simple why it wouldn’t work. You need to have curves (arcs or lines) when you project curves, if you want to project only points then you’ll have to go in create points srf project and then follow the prompts. I projected them according to top view you could also project it to the surface normal.

 

 

 

Bien à vous!

 

Best regards!)