Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Build 852.

Wonder if it's a graphics card issue???

I deleted your skin and tried to re-skin and got another shell. A verification says the solid is not closed, but will not allow a repair.

Any other suggestions?

Thank you so much for your help, Steve! I've learned a lot in these past 24 hours!

How long before the bug is fixed, or will it be? Should remove ViaCAD and re-install the original? And what will I be giving up by going back to the original build of 2D/3D V6?

Hi Guys


Looking at file skin 1 edited, looking at the last 2 profiles it appears that at 8 decimal places the y point last 4 digits of some intersections is not the same. I changed the points to be the same 8 decimal points and redrew the bottom line so its only 1 segment. Then the first 5 segments skin solid. the last profile appears to have a bad spline either top or one of the right left sides, so to repair ( I did the following on the last profile.)

1. Copy the profile, move to new location
2. extrude to solid , check object and hit repair
3. change object solid to surfaces
4. delete the sides and face except for the one at the curve you extruded from.
5. use explode edge on the remaining surface to get a new profile
6. group profile and move back onto the old profile (i used the bottom line center point as reference.
7. skin solid hold shift and pick solids starting from the small to large profile.


@ Steve - Even the solid you posted checked with errors. I think the skin solid tool works but the geometry of profiles needs to be good.


Regards

Jason

Steve see attached pic opened in VC 2d/3d b856 & shark lt 853. Units set to inches...








How did you export the curves... for other cad systems file type?

It seems that these splines are corrupt somehow vs the cad system being intolerant, but an intersection point should be accurate (imho) to 8 places... Maybe something else is going on here...

Thanks

Jason

Steve

Yes, I understand what you are saying about 8 decimal place, but the profiles posted above are off at intersections at the 5 decimal place. If endpoints are created by using snaps then they should be accurate to 8 decimal places... either these splines are corrupt some how or they curves were not snapped to end points...

I could not even cover surface on the last profile till I repaired it... so i would not expect it to skin solid.

The error messages I posted eluded to the idea that points do not lie faces.

So I still think that the skin solid tool works as intended, although it may require more accuracy in the sketch profiles to generate good results.

Regards

Jason



Regards

Jason

Hey jdi000, thank you so much for your help as well. A couple of questions:



How did you check this and how might I do the same on future projects? More importantly, how could I have avoided this error?

Perhaps some background should shed light on this error. I'm trying to model a particular object (I'll show it when I get it done! ;)) that has some very complex curves, a real challenge for a CAD rookie such as myself. The way I decided to tackle the project was to build the model "Lego-style" to get as close as I could to final model. Then, I created a series of surfaces and used them to slice the model into pieces. Finally, to create the initial profiles, I took each of those pieces and exploded the leading edges. (I now know it would have been much, much simpler to just use the Surface/Solid intersect tool.)

Once I had those initial profiles made with the exploded edges, I begin to modify the profiles to match what they should be in the final model. My plan then was to delete the original solid and then Skin Solid over the new profiles. It hasn't quite worked out the way I wanted, obviously.

So, if this is not a program bug (I'm relieved!), then how can I make sure this doesn't happen again? What are the rules for using the Skin Solid tool that are obviously not included in the manual?

Thanks again guys for all your help!!!

I am not sure how to answer this, I don't think you need to check and rechecked every curve, but maybe check your solid before sectioning and exploding edges...






I think you followed the tool ok, ie making groups, selecting groups in the order, etc.


Regards

Jason

Is there a prize for stumping the experts? LOL!

I have been informed this will be fixed in the next build.


- Steve