Help with machining a mold

[BCITStudent]

Hi, 

 

I am trying to machine a mold for a blade and having trouble with multiple errors such as: 

1. A solid with at least one serious fault has been created, keep it anyway?
2. Operation can not be performed on sheet body solids

 

Im trying to fill the cavity to be able to machine the surface, then in a separate set up machine the cavity.  I've tried some different things but i am not sure how to do this or fix these errors.

 

Attached is the file, thanks!

 

Mold Half 1-OLD.mcx-8

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

You have poorly connected edges 14 pcs and over used edges 3 pcs  .... etc. 

 

Solution 1 :  create surfaces from your sheet solid ( a sheet solid is not watertight ) and machine them.  The mold half looks fine . 

Solution 2 : Get hold of either CADfix or Elysium CAD to rectify your sheet into a solid. You could try Solidworks, but I doubt it will solve all your problems.

 

Gracjan

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Send me your e-mail and I'll send you the corrected file.

 

G

[ajmer]

how did you create that solid?

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

I did it outside of Mcam . It could be done within Mastercam , but in the past it has taken up to two days to "debug" a surf model. It is a little masochistic of me to design molds within Mastercam , but it can be done and the reward that I have a "live" model where I machine is great.

 

G