Split Entities not trully Split

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Marcos, Sep 7, 2006.

  1. Marcos

    Marcos Guest

    Can someon tell me plese when I use the split entity tool on a circle,
    and split it in halfe, when I clique on each halfe it selects in two
    halfes all right, but yet when I try to surface extrude it then it
    extrudes as one entity. How do I get the circle to extrude halfe at a
    time, if you can help me. I need to add a tangent curvd line later on
    and need to add tangents relations is why I need to split circle in
    halfe.
    I thank you for helping me
    Marcos
     
    Marcos, Sep 7, 2006
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  2. Marcos

    matt Guest

    In most cases what you are talking about is actually a benefit. There is
    automatic functionality taking care of this in the background. Years ago
    it used to do as you say, but they made it smarter. If you want to have
    a cylinder split, it is probably best to use a Split Line feature using
    a plane to split or using silhouette edges to split.

    You can add tangent relations without having a split point. You can also
    add tangent relations to the sketch instead of the edge, which is more
    stable anyway.
     
    matt, Sep 7, 2006
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  3. Marcos

    ed1701 Guest

    Good point. As an example that you may expect, you will note that if
    you extrude a contour with two, connected, collinear lines, those two
    lines only make a single planar face.
     
    ed1701, Sep 7, 2006
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