CAD drawing library

[xsspeed]

awesome - how long has the tab been up?

[Spencer]

Since Monday so not long.

[NicT]

Cant upload solidworks files?

 

Have to be DXF?

[Benno]

Having it in DXF is a better idea as it is a universal file format, so can be opened/edited/viewed in pretty much all decent CAD programs. Laser/water cutters etc may not accept solidworks files if people want to send files directly to the cutters.

[Spencer]

I can probably change the accepted extensions. But yea I imagine solid works files will only be useful to 0.1% of oldschoolers?

[peteretep]

Yeah dxf's are much better for what we are doing here and the file size is much more acceptable. I can convert solidworks files to drawings/ dxf if anyone wants/needs

Did you know Photoshop can also open up dxf's

[NicT]

I am pretty slack, so ill just convert the files i know people will want

[Spencer]

If you guys CBF uploading shit send it to me or Pete to sort out, you guys must have some shit lying around to upload?

[flyingbrick]

I have ls1 engine mount plates and water outlet flanges drawn up.. il send through later

[Ned]

Need some solidworks help please!

I have a box with drafted sides

and i want to get a stainless shield cut that fits nicely inside this box, and i want it say 5mm from the top. How do i get solidworks to basically let me make a sketch that follows the faces where the plane i want to draw on intersect the model?

I have done one before, but i didnt like the way i did it. What i did was roll back to before all the fillets etc and create a new sketch and do a convert entities of the bottom of the box. Then extruded that up to the height i wanted with the 1deg draft on it, created another sketch on top of that with a convert entities of the top face, deleted the silly extrusion i made and just fixed all the lines on the remaining sketch.

Not the best way to do it, but it worked. Whats the correct way? surely solidworks has a feature where it draws a sketch of where a plane intersects a body?

[Ned]

I thought i had it when i found this;

http://grabcad.com/questions/how-can-i-create-an-intersection-curve-in-sw

but that creates a 3D sketch which is of no use to me as i need a 2D one. How do i get this to be a 2D sketch, or how do i create a 2D sketch from the 3D one?

[Benno]

I'm not sure if I'm interpreting what you want to do properly, but have you tried making a new plane offset 5mm from the top face (click on top face, reference geometry, plane, change offset).

 

Then create a new sketch on your plane, select the edges you want to sketch (hold down control, click on each edge), then either convert entities or offset entities. I would probably recommend offset entities so there is a 1mm gap.

[Ned]

ah, cool. I didnt realise i could do that. Cant do an offset entity though from the faces, but if i select the faces, convert entities, delete the crap i dont need and then offset those and set the original ones to construction, it should work.

Cheers

[Ned]

so, that doesnt actually work that way BTW...

If i convert entities of a drafted face, it will just give me both extremes, not where it intersects with my plane/sketch

[peteretep]

hey ned send me a model of it and I'll have a play, its probably really easy

[peteretep]

oh, just use intersection curve instead of convert entitiies

[Ned]

i ended up using the intersect curve thing, but thats a 3d sketch so just drew a 2D sketch over the top and it was happy as larry

[peteretep]

no use intersection curve within a sketch

[Ned]

cheers. I thought that option wasnt available inside the sketch before, but it is.

I normally wouldnt care but it has to be pretty close to stop people from poking things at the 250V DC underneath it

[My name is Russell]

Anyone else use Autodesk Robot?