Hallo,

ViaCad will not blend my edges.
I would like to have a blend around my objekt with 0.2 mm but it does not work. Is there any possibility to do it.

please look at the attachement

Thank you blowlamp :-)
how did you solved my problem ?
i allways got errormasseges in ViaCad 6.0

i will trie this week-
I love your chairs

I was having this problem myself, but mine may have been to my possbily not using the took correctly nor not using the directions properly. On a lark i used the "explode curves" tool to extract/copy-in-place the edges and fillets.

Then, I used the fillet tool to set my desired radius.

Next, I used the blend tool to set my corners/vertices radii, and then i used other blend options to radially smoothe out the tips of the vertices. I got *pre-tttty* excited when i managed to do that.

In the process, i realized/re-remembered that i can extrude solides to a surface to make new or make corrected non-touching surfaces when i remove too much material. For example, I have a "wall" that is not vertical, and it's not flat. I have structural supports that are t-beams (or, I-Beam with no flange on the wall surface). When I used interference check to leave in place the geometry to make for the solids to be removed (to make "cutouts" for the stiffeners) i find that my stiffeners and the originating station lines are not all touching the edge of the "floor" plating. I think i may be able to use "extrude" to just build the flooring/deck right up the the surface/solid and avoid all the time-consuming "correction" steps.

The more i use ViaCAD and learn new things, the giddier i become.

do you mean this edges? it looks now how open surfaces.

thank you, i think i have learned it now :-)

Not sure what you mean by perp edges?? You are correct in that the edges of the solid are no longer G1 BUT that does not mean it cannot be filleted in VC as I have shown earlier in this thread ??

The attached clearly shows how the end faces affect the ability to blend.

I have created a simplified version of awieneke's model. Notice the end faces, one is perpendicular to the conic edges the other not. The little cubes clearly show this.

As it stands, with the left end, non perpendicular, face blended, the conic edges blend OK. However suppress fillet 389 before attempting to blend the conics and acis throws error: 'could not find acceptable sequence of capping faces to trim blend face'.

This error occurs all the time, often after spending ages computing.

I'm almost sure that the 'capping method' for a blend is selectable in other acis based systems I've used. (It's been a long time).

support: An explanation of capping methods/limitations would be very welcome.

unique: You might find this [URL="http://doc.spatial.com/r19/index.php"]acis documentation[/URL] usefull.;)

This looks to be a display facetting error that has been fixed by ACIS with R18. Try changing the resolution to see if it corrects in your build.

Tim

Hello,

Putting aside the problems with the display as mentioned by Tim, there is a problem with the model and/or file.

If you check the outer diameter of the model is is not actually on the same c/l as the inner diameter, I am not sure if this in itself is causing the problem as I did rebuild the model using you model as ref (and built the model within you file). But that led to problems with booleans and numerous popups for inconsistencies.

I did then rebuild in a new file just using the dimensions from the model (may not be exact), but I was then able to blend without error.

I have attached the re-build:- just add the fillets.

- Steve