Post by BradUsing Solidworks 2004 Edu. and have a model I can not scale down.
Scales up fine. But when trying to scale down tells me that it will
result in inconsitant geometry. It's all one solid body right now...
any Ideas?
thanks
-Brad
I had a similar problem with a model recently. I'm designing a cast
aluminum intake manifold. I am experimenting with a technique where I've
modeled the core and the shell as separate models, both with primary
references to a skeleton part. I then use the cavity feature to subtract
the core from the shell, leaving me my as cast model. So far the has made
it much easier to control the draft of the core and shell separately.
The problem showed up deep in the design. One the core, some of the last
features I had were delete faces, lofts, a knit, and then a thicken. This
worked fine until I wanted to add some extra bosses above all that in the
tree. At that time, the cavity feature would fail, giving me the same
error you saw...scale would fail due because it would result in
inconsistent geometry. The thing I thought was strange about that is my
cavity feature had no scaling factor.
Ultimately, after chasing dead ends for half a day, I was able to fix it by
deleting the thicken feature, and getting the same result by checking the
box to form solid in the last knit command. I didn't expect this to work,
but tried it on a whim, as I was running out of options. Since then the
model has been stable.
I suppose this doesn't really help you with your problem directly, but
maybe it will be a seed for ideas from others.
MHill
SW2005 sp0