Split Bodies and gaps

[MB_9236701]

Hi guys,

I have a question about possibilities in creo.

Is there any option to divide or split one body which contains two features that are physically connected together ? I know the split body but that’s not usable for complex geometry. I have a task to make a body which represents inside volume of closed housing.

And the second question is if the creo is capable to somehow find air gaps in the closed housing ? For example I want to know if there are no pressure leakes. Thanks 

creo 7.0 

[Kotom-Eng]

I fear that you are not in the correct community. Here you are in the community "Creo Elements Direct" that is a software different from Creo Parametric. You should move your post to the community "Creo Parametric" to have a better chance to get an answer.

[tbraxton · Accepted solution]

Boolean operations are available for bodies as well as solid cuts, so yes you can split a body (the complexity of the shape should not matter).

To create a body representing the closed volume of a housing you can use surfacing features to do this readily for complex geometry.

1) Copy the surfaces on the inside of the housing using seed and bound selection method.

2) Cap off any openings that exist after step one using surface features

3) Merge the quilts created in step1&2 to create an enclosed quilt

4) Solidify the closed quilt and create a new body for this feature

To find gaps, you can inspect the resultant quilt of step one for "open" edges visually by changing system colors to make them very obvious. Any gaps in the surface will also prevent you from solidifying the volume (step 4).