I am working on a medical device project in which I need to connect multiple rings together by a number of connectors. For simplicity, I have demonstrated the problem I am currently facing below
At the interface of the ring and the connectors, there is a mismatch in surface contour which I would like to smooth out. I tried “matchsrf” but does not work. Would you mind providing some suggestions on how I can connect the two surfaces together with a smooth transition. Or how can I get the curvature from the ring and use that to extrude the connectors?
Hello - it looks to me like you would probably want to trim out a cylinder for this - does the connecter shape just continue the cylindrical face, in theory?
Like so?
Unfortunately, the geometry is more complicated than the one I shown.
I cannot show the actual geometry here due to sensitve information. Hence, I showed the ring and connector in their very simple form.
I have attached a link to an Open Access article that shows what I am trying to model.
The article only shows how the medical device look like in an ideal senario. For my project, I have the actual geometry in which rings and connectors are non-uniformly spaced and hence the complexity.
Hello- you can send confidential files directly to tech@mcneel.com, to my attention, if that works for you. In any case, I am pretty sure I see what to do - if you can’t send us the file, make something up that has the same general features - saving me the trouble of trying to guess what is important and likely getting it wrong - and send that.
