How to Use Convert Entities in 3D Modeling? This is a very powerful parametric capability that we will expand on in much greater details. So if we change the shape of this tomb stone, notice that the sketch changes and updates as well. As we mentioned the on edge relationship is special because it will change to always mimic the geometry it is based on.
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What this means is that the geometry will change an update based on any change that occurs to the geometry it is based on. The reason for this is that converted entities have a special geometric relationship called on edge. Showing that projection in the object will update the sketch in the reference plane. Not only is the geometry copied over but we noticed that the sketch segments all black or fully defined although we did not use any dimensions to constrain the sketch.įigure 3. We could press either the green check again or the red axis to exit the feature since there are no entries on the selection window. The convert entities property manager is still active allowing us to select more entities to convert or if we did not select the entire outline of the tombstone, we could select the remaining edges without relaunching the command. We will press the green check to project the selected entities on to the sketch plane. Another way to select the geometry is to right click on the edge and choose select loop or we can simply select the face that contain the contour geometry. To remove an entity we can reselect in the graphics window, right click on it in the selection window and click on delete or clear selection to clear the entire window. Notice that the edges were selected are added to the entities to convert selection window. We can do this by individually selecting each edge. To capture the contour geometry add this tomb stone shape, we can simply select the edges of the geometry that we would like to convert. Showing the exact same dimensions sketched on plane as that of object using convert entities tool.Ĭlick on the convert entities icon on the sketch toolbar. We can use the line tool and the tangent arc tool to create this shape segment at a time we can do it this way but the convert entities tool is much better way to accomplish this.įigure 2. We see three edges and an arc in the shape. What we like to do here is to create the same shape as solid geometry here. We will select this plane here to sketch on. Showing reference plane and boss extrude geometry The first thing we will do is to choose and create a boss extrude sketch based feature.įigure 1. We are using this to help us explain the convert entities sketch tool. In this figure you will see two things, a solid geometry called the boss extrude and a plane. In order to explain this more clearly we have used an example in figure 1.
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Now we are going to understand how to use this tool with an example. Whenever we are trying to make a sketch entity which resembles the geometry of our model, we use convert entities tool. There is an option of offset entities tool with which we can do offset from entities previously used to make another feature. In order to save time, we need an option which can create the exact replica of a particular sketch entity, face, loop, sketch contour or edge. When using SolidWorks we are supposed to make complex designs. The word ‘entities’ refers to either sketch geometry or the edges of any e existing model. Abdul Mannan What is the C onvert Entities Tool in SolidWorks?Ĭonvert entities command in SolidWorks is basically used to make a replica of sketch entity or its dimensions in the same plane or another co-ordinate.
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