How to boolean cut an intersecting part

[TimB]

Hello People

Thanks for taking the time to look at my question

I modeled a reducing tee, then a half tube and placed it in the location i want it to occupy in the end.

The goal is to work out the shape of the half tube so it will fit inside the tee. But despite a few of trying to figure out a way to do it I get either errors or just it just fails to draw. So many ways I tried nothing worked

Any suggestions?

BTW I had to export the tee, then import it to even get the ability to do section view.

I can supply more files if need be

Thanks

Tim

 

[idslk]

Hello TimB,

if you want one to take a look into your assembly, it will be necessary to post all part + the assembly file. The best way to do this ist to create a package and and post the package file.

Regards
Stefan

 

[TimB]

Hi, Opps

Sorry about that.
Attached is a new asm and the originals. No converted files

Tim

 

[Nick952]

As Stefan posted, you still need to create a Package File of the Assembly and attach that, rather than the individual files you have at the moment.

 

[TimB]

Oooow Again sorry

I learn something new every day. Never knew I could do that

Tim

 

[HaroldL]

Tim< I tried doing a section view (failed) then I tried an Extrude Cut but got this strange error:



So I suppressed the stub for the Tee and rolled the Dog bone up the tree until it I could cut the model and found that you have a gap in the model:



I think that may be an issue that needs to be corrected before a successful Boolean can be performed.

IF you know the dimensions of the profile why don't you create a Revolve Boss for this part?

 

[TimB]

Thanks for spotting that. The tee is made from compressing and extruding the copper so there are a lot of odd profiles internally.

I'm going to cut it in half the as you said do a profile and rotation.

Again thanks for your time and finding the issue.

Cheers Tim

 

[HaroldL]

Is the half tube something that you will be installing in the Tee? If it is then it may be something to model Top-Down by Inserting a New Part into an assembly.