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Topic: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

A friend asked me to model a handle he made out of clay. I can make the general body shape (the rounded rectangle) fairly easy but it has a molded thumb groove that I absolutely cannot figure out how to model and will take any advice you can give me. These are pics of what I'm trying to make. Thank you for any help in advance.


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/Masurrao/Design%20Pictures/IMG_20141120_121440.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/Masurrao/Design%20Pictures/IMG_20141120_121403.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/Masurrao/Design%20Pictures/IMG_20141120_121351.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/Masurrao/Design%20Pictures/IMG_20141120_121339.jpg

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

I think there are better ways to do something like this with surfaces in SW, but I am not quite there yet.  I would approach it using the Loft feature and multiple spline perimeters distributed on multiple reference planes.  It is certainly not perfect, but take a look at the example (posted).  You can alter the plane spacing as well as tweaking the lofting points about the individual splines and also the shape of the splines.

Like I said, I don't normally do curvy stuff, but this one approach...Good Luck!

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

Another way of doing this is to take the wood carver approach.  Create a profile extrusion, then use the fillet tool to round and bevel the piece.

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

You could easily sculpt this in fusion 360 with t splines, you can grab and pull any faces or vertices however you want.  For free!

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

those are good examples and i know surfaces was probably the way to go, but i have NO ONE to ask except youtube and all the examples are symmetrical.    the damn angle is whats killing me.     thank guys i appreciate your Help.

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

Have you tried the solidworks forum?

This is a perfect example of something I would not use solidworks to model. If I had no choice but to do it in SW I would probably take Pirvan's approach.

What angle are you talking about?

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Re: Desperately need solidworks (ANY) help, I've hit a brick wall.

SnakeEyes wrote:

those are good examples and i know surfaces was probably the way to go, but i have NO ONE to ask except youtube and all the examples are symmetrical.    the damn angle is whats killing me.     thank guys i appreciate your Help.

If you're looking to print your model afterward, surfaces are not going to produce a solid body.  Surfaces, by their definition are open, they don't form a solid object unless you stitch them together manually.

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