Wood construction techniques?

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I asked this over in the SWX forum, but thought I might hit a bigger audience over here.

I design molds out of wood. Alot of times have mutiple peices stacked on top of one another for strength.

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

First I did it by starting with an assy sketch of my profile, showing the various pieces of wood, Then I made seperate peices and assembled them.

After making over 50 seperate part files and then finding it difficult to manage them I thought maybe the best way is to extrude the "stacked wood" profile as one and then split them up later with planes. So I can get a drawing view of each peice of wood for my cutlist.

And yet again I started going about it a different way and playing around with the mold tools, thinking that I can use envelopes to section out the areas that I will have to design inserts for.

I'm new to SWX, if you can't tell already. ;)

Someone suggested weldments but after checking into them more it doesn't seem like that would be the proper way.

Any ideas appreciated. Thanks!

TOP · Accepted Answer

Try split part.First, model your pattern as one piece.Then make surfaces that peel off layers the thickness of the wood orren. SW will then make a series of parts for each piece and an assemblythat holds them together.

zxys · Answer

Here's an example of using a multibody file and cutting away the wood blocks using the final shape (outer surface offset). You can then split the part into your individual blocks (files)... or the above can be made of seperate wood blocks assembled to begin with, then cut away using the surface final part (incontext or using insert/part).

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