reordering scketched bens doesnt prevent "self intersceting part" warning

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by matt, Jul 19, 2006.

  1. matt

    matt Guest

    Have you tried using the setting at Tools, Options, Performance, Ignore
    self-intersection check for some sheet metal features?
     
    matt, Jul 19, 2006
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  2. matt

    Gil Alsberg Guest

    Recently I made a relative simple sheet metal part which has 4 sketched
    bends. on first configuration of the part, the second sketched bend angle is
    small enough to not cause the part to self intersect (while the other bends
    are still permanently suppressed). on the second configuration the angle is
    larger and the part is entering the permanently state of self-intersection,
    however after rebuild and forward rolling of the rest of the sketched bends
    the part is not actually self-intersecting although a warning on sketched
    bend number 2 appears (when clicking "what's wrong" solidworks refers to
    self intersection state of the part).

    Because I made first of all, the first configuration in which the order of
    the bends is irrelevant, and afterwards I made the second configuration
    where the second bend (in order of creation) has received a new value which
    caused the feature to get a warning of self-intersection status, I thought
    the most elegant and quick solution to this is to change the order of this
    bend so it will not create a self intersecting object. to my surprise it
    didn't affect solidworks at all and the warning remains intact.

    Can anybody shed some light on it please?

    Thanks,
    Gil
     
    Gil Alsberg, Jul 19, 2006
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  3. matt

    Gil Alsberg Guest

    Matt, thanks for your help attempt. I didn't know this setting exists (may
    be handy some day i guess). now that you mentioned it, i tried it, and it
    doesnt help at all - the warning remains as before.

    BTW, i made some further investigation on the bend order as it reflects on
    the flattend feature and on the sketch bend features and discoverd that
    there is no correlation between them what so ever!! so actualy my real
    question is: what the hell is going on here? am i crazy or is something
    fudemantaly flawed in solidworks? and does this "bend order" parameters have
    any meaningfull use at all in solidworks? or is it intended just for
    decorating the feature manager tree with beautiful and unmeaningful branches
    and signs!?

    P.S. I am using SW2006 SP3.4
     
    Gil Alsberg, Jul 19, 2006
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