I’m new to SoildWorks (20 year AutoCad user) so am looking for all info I can get but am curious about the mitered sweep function. Did a search for it but came up empty. How ’bout a tutorial on it?
I’m new to SoildWorks (20 year AutoCad user) so am looking for all info I can get but am curious about the mitered sweep function. Did a search for it but came up empty. How ’bout a tutorial on it?
Ben 7:46 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink
Mitered sweep? Do you mean the weldment feature? One of the biggest hurdles when converting to a new software package is to learn the lingo. We will do our best to help you with the transition
JMitchell 11:12 am on November 21, 2009 Permalink
Hi Ben, No it’s not sheet metal. I’m working from the DASI book and it’s shown on pg. 230 (for me) but the page I’m working on is shown on this site - http://www.scribd.com/doc/10102673/SolidWorks-Advanced-Part-Modeling. It’s a 3 sided stair step lookin’ thing. There’s an in-bedded .pdf file on that site and the same page shows up as pg 114 (pg. 122 of the .pdf) of the book there or you can do a search for “mitered sweep”. I just can’t figure out how to get to where they’re going with this. I also don’t see a “Mitered Sweep” function anywhere in the Feature menu in SW so I’m pretty lost on this one. Let me know if you need further clarification. Thanks, Joe
CBL 3:59 pm on November 21, 2009 Permalink
It’s just a regular sweep. I don’t believe it’s ever officialy been called a Mitred Sweep.
CBL 4:01 pm on November 21, 2009 Permalink
Forgot to ZIP the image.Attachment - mitred-sweep
JMitchell 5:56 pm on November 21, 2009 Permalink
Thanks CBL, I see how that works now. I kept looking for a “Mitered Sweep” function. Of course I couldn’t find it since it doesn’t exist. The terminology is sometimes confusing to me and I seem to struggle with the relation/fully defined concept. Not sure how I need to think to fully understand that. I keep waiting for the “light bulb over my head” to come on but it’s still flickering at this point. Regardless, Thanks for the help, Joe