Solidworks help

[Roger]

What would be a good way to model this shape in Solidworks, or Mastercam??? i.e lofted?

I need to model it as 2 halfs. A big thanks to all who reply!

[Guest]

If that's a variable radius I'd likely use swept

 

If it's one radius, just cut on a taper, I'd likely just extrude, the cut on the needed plane.

[drafting3]

hard to say without dimensions.

 

at first glance, it looks like this would be an easy model to build if you wanted to use mastercam solids, you could use a revolved solid using ellipse geometry (z-axis rev) for the front, revolved solid for the rear using ellipse geometry (x-axis rev), and an extruded solid with draft for the body... like i said, it's hard to tell without dimensions. i'm assuming the the front and rear are symmetrical along the appropriate axis needed for revolving.

 

after you're done, split the solid into two. (copy it with 0x0y0z, draw a solid containing half of it, boolean remove 1 side, boolean intersect the other)

 

your view naming seems off, it may just be that your side view isn't standing upright to match your front.

 

anyways... i'm calling your front my top, and your bottom my front. i'm looking at the part as if it was laying flat on a table. (longest dimension is in the y-axis, shortest dimensions is in the z-axis)

[drafting3]

assuming the geometry is this simple, the model takes about 5-10 minutes to construct.

[Roger]

Thanks everyone for your responses. This part is going to be like a TV remote, with a circuit board, speaker, battery, etc. inside. The 1st prototype I made was a simple rectangle, and after that a rectangle with a tapered end, radius all around.

 

And now they want this shape! They can't understand why the new shape would cost so much more to make. They want them mass produced (1000, or more).

 

What would you quote this part at ??? The material is Aluminum.

[drafting3]

What would you quote this part at ??? The material is Aluminum.

 

 

ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! MUWAHAHAHA!