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Create a Square to Round Transition - Solid

  • July 11, 2011
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I am having a hard time creating a solid with a square bottom and round top on parrallel planes. Can someone help me understand the best way to do this in Pro-E? I used Swept Blend, but it is not a smooth transition. Please help! thanks...


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Best answer by GregFrankland

Couple of things to remember when creating swept blends...

1) Equal number of segments is all sketches. (or use blend vertices)

2) Start points need to be in the same relative location for both sections other wise you end up with something like:round-to-square-twist.jpg

In the sketch for the circle, I broke the circle in locations relative to the corners of the square using the break tool as you see below

circ-to-round-sec-2.jpg

Does this help?

-Greg

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GregFrankland1-Visitor
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July 11, 2011

Colette,

Attached are two quick shades of round to square transitions. Is this what you are referring to?

-Greg

CJK_Acuity1-VisitorAuthor
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July 11, 2011

Yes! Can you plesae give me a quick tutorial? thanks!

GregFrankland1-Visitor
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July 11, 2011

Colette,

I made the one you see in square-to-round as a swpet blend. Is that result acceptable?

If so, I will give you some pointers on that geometry. Otherwise, I can try to explain square-to-round2.

-Greg

GregFrankland1-Visitor
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July 11, 2011

Since it is getting late in my day and I am getting ready to head home, I thought that I would attach the Pro/E part - no IP here. I hope that you have WF5.0 and hopefully this will help you out. I also left the other transition in the model grouped and supressed if you want to take a look at it too.

-Greg

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