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revolve will not work when axis is within part
jacques_chaurette
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Hello, I'm new at this. I put a circle centered on the origin and a construction line down the center, When I revolve the circle around its axis I get a revolve error: "revolve did not generate properly - revolve would create self-intersecting part". If the axis is outside the circle it works fine. So my guess is that there is another way to create this 3D volume.
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Jacques
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bradley_sauln
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 373 
@jacques_chaurette, it sounds like you are trying to make a sphere. Please see the following public document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e9b7c9ec7a6be8c12ed4f510/w/fdccace106c7e82ca6c61933/e/583d24a6330998876fe18ee4
What you want to do is split the circle in half with a solid line and only revolve half of the circle. There error you are getting tells you the exact reason why a full circle revolve is not working for you: "revolve would create self-intersecting part"5 -
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chris_8
OS Professional Posts: 102 PRO
A half circle will revolve 360 to create a sphere, but as you found a circle won't revolve. You can use the Trim tool to remove half the circle, then close it up by drawing a line between the two points, then revolve.
If a full circle revolving 180 intersects itself, then it seems a half circle going around 360 would do the same. So I'm not sure why one works and the other fails
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What you want to do is split the circle in half with a solid line and only revolve half of the circle. There error you are getting tells you the exact reason why a full circle revolve is not working for you: "revolve would create self-intersecting part"
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If a full circle revolving 180 intersects itself, then it seems a half circle going around 360 would do the same. So I'm not sure why one works and the other fails