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New Person Needing Help

jonkers

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As the topic says i am a new person needing help with solid works.

I have only been using it for a day or so and i got a grasp of the basics now and thought i would try and model something kinda simle that i thought i could do.

So i grabbed the thing closest to me and it happened to be the firing bolt out of my paintball marker.

Anyway i got what i consider something pretty good after a few hr's and was pretty happy with my first modeling attempt.

But there is one thing left to do and i can not for the life of me work it out.

I need to make an elliptical type shape dent in the side of it. I need it to gradually get deeper as it goes backwards along the bolt.

Any help[ with this would be great. If there is a tutorial that you know of that you could point me to or explain to me how to do it would be fantastic.

I have added a pic to try and show you what i mean.

egoboltnodetentcopy3je.jpg
 
Jonkers


You might try creating a plane to the OD then create an angled plane to the first new plane created. The angle would be the slope you want for the dent depth. On the angled plane create your elliptical type shape dent. Hope this helps.
 

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