We have a cylinder and I want to put a cam cutout into the internal surface of the cylinder. I have done it initially by creating the cylinder in sheetmetal, unbending it, putting in the correct profile to extrude the cut from the plate, then inserting and bend back to get the cylinder back. I then converted it back to a solid model to build up the outside of the housing we are trying to design. The only problem is its a one shot operation for the initial cutout as when convert back to a solid model we lose all the dims for the cutout etc as it converts to copied geometry.
See the attachment of the cutout profile I want to have in the internal cylinder
Surely must be a way of saying that this is the profile for a 360 surface and we want it to a certain depth
I've also attached pic of what the part should look like when finished (taken from the sheet-metal version we created)
Any advice of a method would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Stu
See the attachment of the cutout profile I want to have in the internal cylinder
Surely must be a way of saying that this is the profile for a 360 surface and we want it to a certain depth
I've also attached pic of what the part should look like when finished (taken from the sheet-metal version we created)
Any advice of a method would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Stu