Tutorial 4
Tutorial 4
Tutorial 4
6 Tutorial 4
In this tutorial we are going to show some of the new UNIQUE functionality of
SplitWorks, which enables corrections to the part (whatever they may be) to be
down streamed to the final inserts through our unique Update Surface
functionality.
In the first tutorial we demonstrated modifications, which were made on the
part WITHOUT adding or deleting features. Here we are going to show the
general modification of parts including addition/deletion of features and even
modification of an IGES file.
Tutorial 4
Click on the Tools > SplitWorks > Split… menu or relevant icon from
the CommandManager. Check that the cavity direction is correct (Top).
Check the Show parting line(s) and Main groups only parameter.
Click on the Create Silhouette button in the Split dialogue box.
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Select the Cavity folder from the SplitWorks property page, click on the
RHM button and press Create Surface.
Click on the Tools > SplitWorks > Plug Hole(s)… menu or icon. (The
Solid Bodies are hidden and the surface is visible)
Click .
Select Surface-Knit from the Surfaces Bodies folder and click on the
Tools > SplitWorks > Loft… menu. The parting surface is flat so it is
automatically created.
Click .
Click on the Tools > SplitWorks > Create Solid Insert… menu and
select the surface from the screen.
Click .
Explode the assembly.
Click .
This is a major change, which will cause difficulty for most splitting procedures.
Hide the solid (Split Line2) under the Solid Bodies folder.
Select Cavity-Surface1 under the Surfaces Bodies folder and click on
Tools > SplitWorks > Plug Hole(s)…menu or relevant icon.
Clear the Boundary Loop(s) selection box.
Select an edge from the new hole.
Click .
Roll down to below Surface-Knit2, edit and add the last created surface
(Surface-Plane11).
Click .
Roll down to the end and show Surface-Knit3 under the Surface Bodies
folder.
The parting surface has now been completely updated.
Hide Surface-Knit3 under Surface Bodies and show Split Line2 under
Solid Bodies.
Open Cover.SLDASM. The assembly updates to include all the
corrections!
Here you can see the modifications made to both the core and the cavity.
Important Note:
The process of modification has two separate steps:
Click .
We are going to create the core surface. We can see both the main parting
lines and some open parting lines where we have holes.
Zoom to one of the pairs of open paring lines as shown below.
Modify the draft angle of the “no draft face” so that they become part of the
core, using the Insert > Features > Draft… menu or relevant icon,
choosing the bottom face as the direction and the 4 faces (one for each of
the snaps) to draft.
Click .
Notice that the core and the open parting lines are updated. The other no draft
faces obviously belong to the cavity part and we will ignore them, although
their draft angle might have to be corrected.
Select the Core folder from the SplitWorks property page, click on the
RHM button and press Create Surface.
Hide the Open and Closed Parting lines.
Click on the Tools > SplitWorks > Plug Hole(s)… menu or relevant icon.
Obviously Plug Hole(s)… cannot fill these holes and we will use standard
SOLIDWORKS tools to create the shut-offs. (SOLIDWORKS Parting Surface
menu doesn't close them properly either)
Here we will create the cut-off on one hole and use the Copy Surface
command from SOLIDWORKS to translate and rotate it to the other holes.
Create a SOLIDWORKS > Surface-Loft on one of the snap-through’s as
shown below.
Cntrl-Select three edges as shown below and click on the RHM button to
Select Planar Surface. Make sure that the first edge is from the loft.
Cntrl-Select four edges as shown below and click on the RHM button to
Select Planar Surface. Make sure that the first edge is from the knit (not
the core surface).
If you have created these planar surfaces where the first edge was NOT from
the Core-Surface – then you will have a knit Surface as well as the Core-
Surface in the Surface folders. This knit surface includes only the five faces we
have created for the snap-through.
Select the Insert > Surface > Move/Copy… menu to move this knit
surface to the second hole on the same side using the translate (76 or -76
mm in the Z direction) and mark copy, the use it again to rotate the 2
surfaces around the center point by 180 degrees (y direction) again with
the copy parameter marked.
Knit all the surfaces together.
Select Surface-Knit from the Surface Bodies folder and click on the
Tools > SplitWorks > Loft… menu to create the loft surface. SplitWorks
recognizes that it is a planar surface. Make the distance 25.
Select the Tools > SplitWorks > Create Solid Insert… (or relevant icon)
and create the core and cavity inserts, modifying Thickness (material
margin) for both the core and the cavity to 15 (i.e. Stack height of 30).
Click .
Explode the assembly with the SOLIDWORKS Explode function.
The part and the inserts have been updated. This is a simple example; no new
shut-offs had to be made etc. however, if in more complex parts the
SOLIDWORKS rebuild errors appear then modifications can be achieved using
the same methodology as you would in the standard SOLIDWORKS
environment.
Note:
You may have to extend the Base-Extrude feature in the core.