dome command

[bradipo666]

hi guys I'm trying to draw the remote apple (the apple remote control, aluminum model) with inventor 2013. I created the body, I beveled, I created the buttons with the function "face division" and so far everything ok... now comes the problem: I have to get on the central button a recess to the inside type dome, with solidworks exists the function "Dome" with inventor how do I do? I tried drawing a profile and performing a revolution with cut.... then I tried drawing a surface and performing "sculp" but the result is always the same: Once I cut the solid, I get a non-circular but oval recess given by the surface not flat but curve!
I attach some screenshots, thanks

 

[lattu]

you have to make a dome sketch to be able to revolutionize and cut from the main solid

 

[bradipo666]

thank you for the lattu answer! I have already tried to create a sketch and revolution though when I follow the cut of the solid, observing the object from above I realized that it comes out an elliptical dome and not circular! Do you have any other advice to give me?

 

[bradipo666]

you have to make a dome sketch to be able to revolutionize and cut from the main solid

I already tried. this solution is valid if the plan where you go to perform the revolution-cutting is slow. in my case though it is curved...

 

[bradipo666]

allego il file

 

[lattu]

definitely depends on the curvature of the surface. I make another attempt

 

[lattu]

I'm sorry. the problem is that they are at first weapons with inventor

 

[lattu]

a possible way is to create a loft (1/4 dome) to be subtracted to the solid, creating it with sections resting on the marked profile but moving upwards from the face and then mirrored

 

[lattu]

That's the best I could do.
obviously there will be a simpler command or procedure

 

[bradipo666]

That's the best I could do.
obviously there will be a simpler command or procedure

I tried with the loft, in various ways but the result is not of the best :36_1_31: I look confident other advice from some other volenteroso... Thank you very much:

 

[simoxxx3]

instead of projecting the circle extruding it by creating a groove in your remote control.
now perform smooth operation on the side of the groove.
This is a solution that I managed to think in a quarter of an hour so I don't make a perfect result.
I'll give you my proof

 

[bradipo666]

Yes, it can be a solution.. Thank you simoxxx3!