Blend surface to section?

[CPAERO]

I am having trouble creating a piece to fill this gap. I need to go from the existing bottom piece, up into the cone shaped piece, following a similar shape as the bottom piece. The connection to the bottom piece is contoured in a couple different directions, which is giving me some trouble. I tried using surface to section blend from the insert advanced menu but its not working for me. Any ideas?

 

[gkc]

Dear CPEAERO

Sorry,but your modelling approch seem to be troublesome. What I mean is that you have an unfortunate mixture of surface and solid modelling. If you want to succeed you should make you non-cone part using only surface features until it's complete. (If you have ISDX-surface modeling this can do the job for you - but bled surfaces etc. can probably get you a long way too). Please see surface demo's at www.E-connection.net.It's wery inspirering.

Greetings GKC

 

[Jacoolo]

well, still some constraints are left not discussed:

*should it be tangent to "conic" geometery?

*should it be tangent to "base" geometry?

Having ISDX license and have opportunity to play with it would be a fine thing to have but this and many cases around could be solved without having mentioned "expensive" piece of Pro/E

 

[CPAERO]

Thank you GKC and Jacek for your responses. I would like the part to be
tangent to the base geometry only. My intention with the use of blend
surface to section was only to obtain a part that would fit to the top
of the base piece. I would have then attempted to solidify the part. If
there are better ways of obtaining a solid piece that matches the top
of the base I would really appreciate suggestions.


BTW the base piece is a blended protrusion cut by different revolves in 2 places.



As for
the ISDX license, I am working with the university edition of WF4.0 and
im not sure if the package was purchase with our license. How can i
tell if i have the ISDX license?




This is similar to what i am trying to achieve. to do this i used the uncut base piece and cut away the exiting base piece (effectively making a cap on the existing base). from the flat top of the "cap" I created a blended protrusion into the cone.

The problem with this piece is the clear ridge in between the "cap" and the new protrusion. I would like to go directly from the upper surface of the base piece to the cone surface.

Base piece in red


cap in red







Thanks for the help.

Eric







Edited by: CPAERO