Patch thickening of surface model

[swhitehead-rice1]

Hello,

I'm struggling to thicken part of my surface model. I've created a boundary blend on the inside and tried to thicken that, which has failed. It says the part has failed to intersect.

I was then intending to solidify the external surface to fill the patch in the model.

I have attached a step file of the model. The problem is in prt006.

I think the problem could be due to a converging line on the external surface.

I would appreciate any help.

Sam

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[MartinHanak]

Hi,

your part and assembly were created in educational version of Creo. Nobody with commercial version can open it.

MH

[rohit_rajan]

Martin then you would need to install the educational version.

[MartinHanak]

Rohit,

you are good joke-teller, aren't you ?

MH

[rohit_rajan]

ha ha ha..if that made you laugh  

[TomD.inPDX]

If I understand your problem, you may try to patch both inside and outside.  This should allow you to solidify the patched region.

[swhitehead-rice]

Hi everyone,

thanks for replying. I've attached a set of screen shots, which I hope shows the problem more clearly.

thanks,

Sam

[TomD.inPDX]

This is a tough one.  I might suggest removing one surface of the solid to make the whole part a quilt.  Next, make the patch; combine into a single quilt of only one skin; then thicken the entire quilt again.