Solid
Edge Tip of the Week
April
3, 2015
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Solid
Edge - Deleting Complex Bends
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Occasionally when working
with imported geometry or complex parts, you will run into a corner with
multiple blends that cannot be deleted since the geometry is too complex.
There's a simple way to get around this issue that works great with the new
quick shapes in Solid Edge ST7. In the picture below you can see we have a
pretty complex corner with a lot of faces:
If we select the rounds and
attempt to delete them, we will get the following error - The selected items
could not be deleted:
This can be fixed by
creating a sphere on this corner to consume all of the faces. The easiest way I
found to place the sphere is to first create a plane along a curve and place
that on one of the edges in the middle of the corner. Next, start the Sphere
command and lock on to the plane you created:
Make sure that the sphere
is large enough to consume all of the complex faces inside of it as seen
below:
Next, select all of the
remaining rounds that intersect the sphere and delete them:
Finally, delete the sphere
you created and Solid Edge will recreate the corner without any rounds or
blends:
I've also created a short
video showing how this can be done which can be seen at the following link: https://youtu.be/TUrYldus6gw
Ben
Weisenberger
Application
Engineer
Ally
PLM Solutions, Inc.
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