All you Solid Works guru's out there.
I need to mill out these four pockets
from the back of this part. How do I do that
in Solid Works?

BTW I do most of the drawing in Rhino
and let Solid Works do the fillets as it does fillets
better than Rhino.

Thanks.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

send away Paul, I'll see if I can help ya  :-)


Jarrett

Thats OK I need to learn how to do it myself.
The Rhino part had a defect. I'll probably just
draw it over. Seems quicker than drawing it in SW.

So far drawing parts in SW is T E D I O U S :)
I think it is a plot by the French to destroy our
engineering productivity :)

Something simple like "snap to" would speed things up.
So far I have not found snap. Is snap in there someplace?

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

I sent that last one to fast  :-)  From the view
you have in the pic, what you would do [in
solid works] is click the face you want to do a
'cut extrude' on, which would be one of the four
quadrant sections, click the cut extrude function
and then click convert entities from the sketch
toolbar, you would do this for all four quadrants
[all in the same sketch] and then click the
checkmark. You then type in what depth you want to
cut to, or what dept in ref. to the other surfaces
you want and its done. Next time you change the
thickness of the casting, the depth of the cut
will move w/ it [ or not depending on how you
dimensioned the depth of cut]

Solidworks can be tedious, however once you get
onto it, you'll find it much more user friendly
than Rhino, esp. when you go back and want to
change things.  Each program as its place.
Solidworks is a bit more labor intensive when it
comes to complex lofting, but also presents more
options when you do go that route, hence it can be
seen as 'harder' instead of just different.
Send me the file if you'd like help.

Jarrett

That was a defective file anyway and SW refused
to fillet it. I sent another to you by private email.

Main problem with all this stuff is there is no standard
for nomenclature. Each 3D program uses its own terms
to do basicly the same thing. I suspect they do that
on purpose to lock you in. On the other hand it could
be programmer culturally difference. Seems Rhino
and ACAD where almost the same. If you new ACAD you
could jump right into Rhino. The main problem
with SW is the user drawing interface. All the SW features
could be added to Rhino and we would have the best of
both worlds. Revolve is a very powerful Rhino feature
but I could not find it in SW. You draw a cross section
and revolve turns it into a solid. Simple and quick.