Creating parting lines on CAD solids or NURBS surface models

Tom Charron — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:55:14 +0000

Rapidform XOR has a pretty cool command called Split Face. It can be used for several different purposes, and one of them is to generate parting lines after you’ve created a CAD model from scan data.

Using Split Face to create parting lines

1) Go to Insert>Modeling Feature>Split Face in XOR

2) Select the Silhouette radio button

3) Define the pull direction (this is the direction the mold will be pulled when separating). In the example below, we’re going to use the axis of one of the cylinder features of this part, but you can use other reference geometries or features.

4) Pick the target entities that you want to split apart. Since this is the split faces command, you’ll need to pick one or more faces here.

5) Click the check mark to run the command, and you’re done.

XOR Tutorial: CCTV Camera Housing

Som Valliyappan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:35:22 +0000

Objective:

In this module, we create a CAD model of a plastic security camera housing from 3D scan data using XOR. The redesign techniques used assume we’re going to LiveTransfer the model to SolidWorks. Incorporating various solid modeling techniques in XOR, we can RE the part in about 2.5 hours. This is a good exercise for practicing parametric modeling methods. This is a highly recommend tutorial for intermediate users.
1. To reverse engineer CCTV Cap using different solid modeling techniques
2. To LiveTransfer the finished model to SolidWorks