T. Ruth Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Help, I can't for the life of me figure out how to add a groove for an O-ring into a design. By groove I mean a circle with a cross section roughlyu that of a U that an O ring will seat into. The closest approximation I could think of would be to put a very shallow section of round tubing within a drilled hole. I'd appreciate any advice. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Use a solid subtraction. Draw a profile of the groove shape and a circle to use as a path and do an extrude along path to get a "positive" of the groove. Move the positive to the correct position and select it and the primary object and do a Subtract Solids. Quote Link to comment
T. Ruth Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 Pat, Thanks so much. Figuring out the orientation (for alignment purposes) of the object I made by extruding along a path took a little bit of doing. In the end it worked perfectly. Quote Link to comment
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