How to Slice a Wheel

[Gail Plush / Amcast Automotive]

Ok guys...Is there an efficient way slice a wheel (solid) to obtain the geometry needed for a turning profile? I have read the other post---done the c/curve/slice thing. The problem is, the wheel has so many "non-uniform" interruptions to the profile....I can e-mail the file to anyone who is interested.....

 

Thanks,

 

 

Gail

[Hardmill]

Send it to me and i'll look at it when I get home this afternoon.

 

PEACE

[gcode]

Have you tried SOLID/Trim to a Plane???

[crazy^millman]

Well the best thing I have found with crazy soilds is to create a soild that is a rectangle bigger that that half of the part. I then do a boolen soild remove for that side of the solid. In the trget tool you have 2 opitions I just turn them to n and you will end up with have your soild gone if you set them to y then you get everything left there is all.

[Harryman]

I'm sure there are a variety of ways to deal with this.

 

What is the source model from? If possible, I'd go back to the model and suppress the milling cuts B4 creating the .MC9, then you won't have them to deal with at all for turning.

 

Otherwise, you can rotate Cplanes to a variey of angles, slice, then rotate the slices to the DZ plane and then sort out the mess of overlapping geometry segments.

 

Now that you've heard from a rookie, maybe one of the pros will hop in.

[Gail Plush / Amcast Automotive]

It came from UG. It is a parasolids file. Sometimes, I can get the profile, other times, all I get is the solid.

[Harryman]

If you can get the UG creator to suppress the non turning features, you're dancin'

 

Otherwise, 4-5 slices at craftily planned angles will get you there.

 

I'm lazy, I always go for suppression if possible.

[Eric S.]

Hello

 

You could try and copy the file then create a rectangle over half of the wheel. Then use it to extrude cut the wheel in half. That should give you the profile you need. It you just want the outline you could the create edge curves in that face. Just a thought

Eric

[Hardmill]

Ok gplush,

Check out the file i sent you tell me if thats

what your after. The slice is a clean chain now.

 

PEACE

[Harryman]

How'd ya do it, Steve?

[Hardmill]

Actually what he may be after he'll need to

create a little x-tra geometry, but I gave him

a clean slice thru the middle of one of the

spokes.

 

PEACE

[John Summers]

Can you put up your part on the FTP site?

[Gail Plush / Amcast Automotive]

I'm having problems with the FTP site, both at work, and at home. I even tried using CUTE FTP. Maybe, I will download FTP Commander....I'm using XP on both machines....

[P_Scott]

gplush and others,

 

Lathe can now apply turning toolpaths directly to solid geometry in V9. If there is a hole or other feature which breaks the "slice" profile, rotating the part from the Right Side Cplane will allow you to find an unbroken "slice". If there are no areas which are clear of breaks after rotation, try the "find features" function in the solids menu to locate, and suppress, features that interfere with the toolpath profile. HTH

[Gail Plush / Amcast Automotive]

I'm still struggling with this. Is there a way to pick a solid "surface" and rotate it? And cut throught the existing geometry? Maybe, this is a stupid question, but it seems like it would work.

 

Newbie...

[Brendan P]

quote:

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Actually what he may be after

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he??

I thought "his" name was Gail???

[crazy^millman]

How about you email your file and let me take a look at it and I will put it up on the FTp for everyone to take a look at.

[M. Anderson]

Bucket -

 

from another thread:

 

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Thanks again,

 

 

Mr. Plush

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Mark

[Hardmill]

Gail I e-mailed your file to you again w/ a

slice rotated. See If that what you need.

If you want I'll put it on the FTP.

 

PEACE

[CAM-mando]

I would really like to bring this file into my cad software and see if I can edit it using a remove features function that is available and then slice it.

 

If you can email me a parasolid or sat to [email protected] I'd like to give it a try.

 

CAM