sewing surfaces

[camtd]

Is there a way to sew surfaces together using X2 Mr2?

[Derek Goodwin]

if you have the solids option, select solids/from surfaces
this will create one solid body

[John@CRDM]

How big is the hole and what is the nature of the geometry? There are loads of ways but i'd use a different way for different scenarios

[camtd]

The part was a parasolid that had 3 different angles and had half a hole going thru them. It was a part being processed in the toolroom so I did not really get into it. I work in short run production we use another cam system there.

Thank You

[John@CRDM]

You'd probably have to share the file if you want a definitive answer

[camtd]

I have attached a parasolid that is modified from the original, due to the customer thing.

[Derek Goodwin]

The act of saving it out as a parasolid turns it into a solid body (surfaces knitted together to form a solid) if you open the parasolid file in Mastercam you will see you have two solid bodies (two separate parts) do you want to join them together? Click on screen/statistics to see what geometry entities you have in your file.

[cadcam]

And so you know there is not a a option to stitch surfaces in to one.even you you make it to a solid it will still be different faces.but as Degmc is showing you have to solids that can be joined to make one.

[camtd]

What is the best way to do this and keep it clean?

[John@CRDM]

I would just patch that up using ruled surfaces if it's just to stop the cutter going in there. We use Pro E for CAD here though so we work from IGES surfaces in MasterCAM.

[weirdharold]

Thank's John for the tip on ruled surfaces . Don't have a lot of knowledge on surfacing & repair. Starting to learn a lot depend's on how you chain your geometry .



Harold C.