SWEEP OR SURFACE MODELLING(Tongue and groove joint)

[bponnusamy]

Hi,

I'd like to know how to give tongue and groove fit on plastic parts. I've attached a assembly where you can find the parts with tongue and groove fit. The matter is I've created tongue and groove fit in the cabinets but the fit is not as expecting the groove after it butts the other cabinet should have 0.5mm clearance all around which i have but as you can see from the

picture there is a 0.13mm gap between the parts and in some places and i can't have it can anyone please tell how to do it. In the front cabinet i created tongue using Sweep command and in Rear cabinet i created groove using surface offset and solidify because sweep wasn't able to create groove all over.  can anyone advise how to do this.

Thank you@

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[DenisJaunin]

Hello Babu,

In your Assembly there is just his image but not the parts.

So we can not do much.

Kind regards.

Denis

[bponnusamy]

Hi Denis,

In the image I've shown the assembled view but I've attached the assembled file pls see the attachment

[DenisJaunin]

Hello Babu,

Yes, but in the Assembly there's not room.

In the file asm0001.asm.1 into Creo we see an image at the time of

the open but it is empty.

Kind regards.

Denis

[bponnusamy]

Hi Denis,

I'm sorry Denis i forgot to attach the parts. NO PROBLEM this time i have attached the zipped file please go through it.

[dgschaefer]

I haven't looked at your files, but generally I'd suggest to use the same method for each parts to get compatible results.  For simple part lines, sweeps can work well, but you need to mind the type of sweep and make sure it's the same for each part.  For complex parting lines, building or cutting away using offset surfaces generally works well.