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The red curve in the images below is a trajectory curve for a swept blend. The thing is that it lies in only one plane (2D) and I would like to make another version of the part that has 3D trajectory. In order to produce the new curve I had to create a new part (new file), the one shown in the third image below.

Please tell me how I can get the red curve in the third image to replace the red curve in the first two images. They are both of the same length and orientation, only different shape and located in different parts.


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Hi,


Use Shared data<copy geom from other model to use the same curve.The only advantage you will be having is if you modify the curve then it gets updated in the current model if you are having both the models in the session.


Regards,


Deepak Bhat
 
Could you possibly elaborate a little more or explain the necessary steps further? I did what you told me to and I went through a few steps by the end of which I believe several reference requirements had at least been met (not sure if correct but...) but then I get to a step where I am supposed to "Define Publish Geometry Feature". I am stuck here because it does not let me actually select anything. Nothing in either file is actually selectable.

Anyway, I appreciate your help very much and can see that it is definitely the way to do what I'm trying to do. However, I am a bit stuck within the process of doing it. Below is the specific situation where instructions telling me to "select publish geometry" yet when I mouse all over the parts, nothing is selectable.

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wf3 education edition:



2006-11-05_224534_3dradicalseg.prt.zip
Edited by: 2ms1
 
I am sort of going to, just once, take the liberty of bumping my thread here just once...

I'm also trying to clarify my question a little better:

Does anyone know how to take a curve from one part as shown in the 3rd pic of the initial post, and put it into a different part as shown in pics 1 and 2?

Ultimately, I'd like to replace the red 2D curve you can see in the first two pics with the curve shown in the third pic. The curve in pics 1, 2 is a trajectory curve for a swept blend that was sketched in the common way of simply using sketcher tool/mode and thus is 2D. The new trajectory curve needs to be 3D and thus could not be realized by a simple redefinition of the original curve, but rather had to be created outside of the original part as an intersection entity. My problem is that I do not know how to bring it into the original part.
 
This video is tremendously helpful. How did you get the new trajectory curve to be isolated before merging it into other part though? I created the new curve by the intersection of two extrusions. I do not seem to be able to get rid of the extrusions without losing the intersection entity though. I do not know any other way of creating this curve other than with the extrusions. How did you do it? I wish it was possible to merge only an entity of a part into another part rather than have to merge the entire part.

here's the tree for my new curve part:

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Here's what the two look like merged, the curve looks great, it's the extrusions and sketches that were extruded (basically everything other than the final intersect entity) that gotta go:

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Hi,


If you are looking to acheive a 3d curve then you dont have to extrude 2 curves and intersect the two extruded surface. follow the mpeg to acheive the 3d curve.


while importing select only the curve so that you will get what you want.


2006-11-15_001127_intersect.zip


Regards,


Deepak Bhat
 
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