Some one trained in SOLIDWORKS SURFACES, Please

Within the last month or so I made a model for a hand held "Tenderizer"
made of a rectangle, approximately 100 MM long and 38 MM wide, with a
convex shape at the top.(raised radius). I offset a plane, and I
sketched and projected a line on the radius and using the line as a
path, I swept cut a 3 MM groove the entire width of the rectangle,
then I linear patterned the entire curved surface. So now the surface
is a row of grooves, cut along a raised radius, with a sharp raised
line sticking up between each groove. The client now wants another
model identical, except that he wants another set of grooves,
criss-crossing the existing ones. I was able to project a line 90
degrees to the exisiting grooves, in hopes of being able to create a
plane to make a sketch to sweep cut in the other direction, but
Solidworks flat out refused to do it. Am I asking too much to be able
to do this? If this is possible, I would appreciate anyone passing the
technique on to me. If anyone needs to see the model, it is not a
proprietary problem.
Mike

 

Hi Mike

I'd be happy to take a look at the model, forward to my email address.

John Layne

www.solidengineering.co.nz