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In Part Studio: How to place one part on the surface of another and merge them via extrusion?
sebastian_motzet
Member Posts: 2 EDU
Hello,
I have the following issue: In my Part Studio there are two parts (Part1 & Part2). I want to somehow place Part2 (right) on the surface of Part1 (left) without warping either one but I can't figure out how to do it. I've done the same thing in Blender to illustrate what I want to do:
In onshape it looks like this right now:
I'm aware that there are some ambiguities in the geometry that need to be clearly defined. Ideally I want to only set an exact rotation of Part2 around the x-axis (pointing right on the images) and move it to the left until its bottom surface-plane touches and is tangential to the surface of Part1. To close the remaining gap I'd extrude the flat face of Part2 up to Part1.
Is there any way to do something like this? I've tried projecting the sketch for Part2 onto Part1, but that distorts the dimensions and I can't generate a clearly defined volume from it.
Thanks a lot.
Answers
Hello Sebastian. One way is to move part 2 (smaller part?) into position using mate connectors assigned to each part. From there an option is to extrude the appropriate face of part 2 so that it joins part 1. - Scotty
join parts | Part Studio 1 (onshape.com)
Move the sketch used for part 2 until it intersects with part 1 and change the revolve function from new to add. You can transform part 2 and Boolean with part 1 but that's more work.
You can try to move part 2 using the transform tool, then transform with a mate connector or by translation until the bodies are intersecting. Then boolean them together to get your desired part
I have a similar problem. In my case i have someting like part 1 existing and want to print part 2 to glue it on part one, how can i "negativ copy" or aligne the surface from part 2 on part 1?
Here is a sample that uses an offset surface @ 0.0 to enclose part 2 and give a complementary surface for gluing.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2e9ab31421e4cce8455c3c86/w/65e81d8a9a40060d6f87efb7/e/57d16a5118c01072f6790c11
First choice is always to create the parts in the right place. If that fails, for example when one of the parts is imported, there is always an option to insert all parts into anassembly, arrange as needed (the toolset there is much more versatile) and then use in-context-edting to intersect parts.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/111b4800dfe6da6731d411b1/w/585eda28d7cfc4e258fcb3a9/e/b9a97c236d1304581142aa46?renderMode=0&uiState=67e314aa3bf4056b03019367