division bodies

[SimoneF]

Hello everyone,
I have a small problem with the dividing function of solidworks 2014... I created a model in which there are several elements but I did it as a unique body! Now I would like to switch to the multibody to have a more manageable model (for example to choose different types of materials), but using the divid function happens a slaughter, because selecting the faces to be used as cutting surfaces these expand to infinity by cutting even things that should not be cut. . how do I have distinct bodies in the correct way?

Thank you very much in advance.:smile:

 

[Mike1967]

Hello everyone,
I have a small problem with the dividing function of solidworks 2014... I created a model in which there are several elements but I did it as a unique body! Now I would like to switch to the multibody to have a more manageable model (for example to choose different types of materials), but using the divid function happens a slaughter, because selecting the faces to be used as cutting surfaces these expand to infinity by cutting even things that should not be cut. . how do I have distinct bodies in the correct way?

Thank you very much in advance.:smile:

you just disable the flag "join result" when you create solids.
now disable that option is a bit laborious as references and sketch plans will make of the mess.
try posting the file.

 

[marcof]

Hello everyone,
I have a small problem with the dividing function of solidworks 2014... I created a model in which there are several elements but I did it as a unique body! Now I would like to switch to the multibody to have a more manageable model (for example to choose different types of materials), but using the divid function happens a slaughter, because selecting the faces to be used as cutting surfaces these expand to infinity by cutting even things that should not be cut. . how do I have distinct bodies in the correct way?

Thank you very much in advance.:smile:

are two cubes one above each other?
Is it the base of a tool machine?
Do you understand that having to see the model or at least images is simply impossible to answer?

I ask you something, just out of curiosity: Have you never read here on the forum any response message where, in the face of a lacunous post like yours, it reiterated for the millionth time that you have to put the interlocutor in the conditions to understand what stracaxxo you are talking about attaching then images and possibly the original files?
but I say, why do everyone believe to write on the keyboard of hal9000 and do not think that instead on the other side there are poor cristas any that must question the coffee funds or the crystal bowl to know how to solve problems on an invisible model?

 

[SimoneF]

I'm sorry but unfortunately I can't post the file for reasons of confidentiality of info...cmq I wanted kiederti how can I fix the problem? I didn't understand your explanation so well. . .

 

[SimoneF]

then I try to explain myself better...I have a structure formed by beams, profiles and pillars that I made as a single body not reflecting on the material question; Now I would like to pass to the multibody as I explained in the first message but I can't... I hope I've been clearer. . .
:redface:

 

[marcof]

I'm sorry but unfortunately I can't post the file for reasons of confidentiality of info...cmq I wanted kiederti how can I fix the problem?

Can't you just make a screenshot of a part of the model?
If you can't then you have to describe what is good the problem to do so that you understand why a feature fails you, a surface stretches too etc.
I believe therefore that you should ingegnate to post some images. . .

I didn't understand your explanation so well. . .

Have you never noticed that if you remove the flag from "join results" in the options in the solid features the added parts remain separate bodies?. remove the flag after, then without having planned a multibody modeling, it can be inenarrable case drilling, depending on how the piece is and especially if the split feautre is at the beginning of the tree.

 

[SimoneF]

Maybe I should do it all over again?

 

[marcof]

then I try to explain myself better...I have a structure formed by beams, profiles and pillars that I made as a single body not reflecting on the material question; Now I would like to pass to the multibody as I explained in the first message but I can't... I hope I've been clearer. . .
:redface:

Nice story, but I know as much as before and my crystal bowl refused even to turn on.
I pass the ball to other users with bigger bowls ( crystal is meant). :wink:

 

[marcof]

Maybe I should do it all over again?

Please don't do that!
you are in caxxarola engineer, how can you ask a question in these terms without providing all the data to solve the problem!?

For retaliation, I'd like to tell you that yes, you'll do it first. :tongue:

 

[SimoneF]

But how do I do it? I can't post pictures or put the file... I can't do more than this unfortunately... However not to fall into the same problem and shape my structure as a multibody and not as a single piece, what do I have to do different than before?

 

[marcof]

But how do I do it? I can't post pictures or put the file.. .

Imagine if you can't even post a particular, just a detail of the area where you have to divide the bodies!
Today it touches you, I'm more stroxxo than usual and so I tell you I don't believe it! :redface:

I cannot do more than this unfortunately.. .

Dances! (see above:smile

However not to fall into the same problem and shape my structure as a multibody and not as a single piece, what do I have to do different than before?

if they are carpentry structures look at modeling with structural elements, otherwise simply do not connect the new geometry to the underlying one removing as mentioned before the flag from the "unisci corpo" option, having planned a minimum the structure deciding what will be the main elements that must remain separated

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

if you make beams and profiles use the structural members. you have the advantage of not having to draw all the profile, have a separate cut already ready, make trims in a click, draw only the paths of the pieces having very few odds to manage; You do it with dishes, rounds, pipes.... and (here I say it in a crooked manner) of the latter do not need to have tens of measures it is enough one by type because once imported the profile is untied from its file of origin and you can manage the sketch as you want.

otherwise to divide the bodies do not lean on faces and planes but draws appropriate sketches.

ps if you are in the situation that divide becomes an unresolved casino I assume that you have made a big modeling which means that by doing it unique piece you have mistaken the approach regardless of whether it was one or more materials. you do not draw multibody if there are more materials, but because the part is composed of pieces (generally) welded together

 

[SimoneF]

but in case I extrude a beam after drawing the profile on the surface of a pillar, these two elements are automatically grouped into one only to what I understood; How do I leave them like two separate bodies?

 

[Mike1967]

but in case I extrude a beam after drawing the profile on the surface of a pillar, these two elements are automatically grouped into one only to what I understood; How do I leave them like two separate bodies?

We have already told you more than one....

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

but why draw a profile? now you know that there are structural members that with a sketch (a line, and a quota) and a command you made... half a minute

 

[Tantocattivo]

When you do the extrusions and other operations, you have to check out the option I highlighted.

 

[SimoneF]

Okay guys now it's clear... I just took off the tick highlighted above by so muchbad by all the extrusions I had done...so I got from the unique body a multibody....in this way the faces in contact of the various elements are actually solidarity between them?

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

solidarity exactly like two welded bodies in the workshop

 

[Mike1967]

Okay, guys, now it's clear. . .I just took off the highlighted check above from so muchbad by all the extrusions I had done...so I got from the unique body a multibody....in this way the faces in contact of the various elements are actually solidarity between them?

That was the first thing I wrote to you... But anyway.
about the question... depends.
if you have given offset from the surface will not be "contact", otherwise if the sketch plan coincides with
the surface/face of the body from which you extrude then is.

 

[SimoneF]

I'm not an expert on this software. You're still... .
mike1967 I when I did the various extrusions I have always selected as a plan to draw the sketch one of the surfaces of the already existing bodies....so in this case the nn bodies are solidarity between them?