Distortion

I have a dumb solid model of a complex casting. Is there any way I can
show the model in a distorted state? Like - show one of the
cylindrical bores compressed in to an eliptical bore. Can the
animation package help with this?

 

Maybe try CosmosExpress?

 

I've had some acceptable results using non-uniform scaling bodies. You
can scale a body w/ different scale factors for X, Y, Z drections.

 

I did find a deform tool under Insert Features. It is a little
complicated but I finally created a feature that deformed the part.
Slows my machine down also. The complexity of the casting doesn't help
either. It will take some work but this should do the job.

Now I have to tweak it in and see if I can animate the distortion
process........

 

Non-uniform scaling may work best - maybe easiest. I had doen this
with a JPEG of the part. The marketing people couldn't use that
version and wanted something more 3D. I am also experimenting with the
Flex command in SolidWorks. Similar to the deform tool, but again a
lot of options to reive and it is a very slow process to experiment
with.

 

Can you delete face with the patch option and then redo the bore with
an ellipse?
Perhaps you can copy the faces of the bores to be distorted and then
flex or deform just the bore surface data. Then cut solid with the
distorted surface.

 

Ahoy Peebody,

Ye might try usin configs and the screen capture tooly t' do what ye
wants...

Arrrrrrrrr