Revolved surface around an oval? Solidworks.

[Edster]

Is there a way to make a revolved surface around an oval? Sorta like a dome shape. I can make one around a circle but havent had any luck with ovals. I'm using solidworks 2016.

 

[HuFlungDung]

How about sweeping a curve around an oval instead? Sweeping can be different than revolving.

 

[NeilJ]

Scale a hemisphere in 1 axis? I know it is an elipse, not an oval but??...

 

[alexhawker]

You need to use a swept surface with a profile swept along the elliptical "path"


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[Freds]

Edster,

Can you clarify? Are we talking an oval - essentially a slot (like a race track) or an ellipse? If the former, are you looking to end up with a shape/solid that looks like half a Tylenol capsule? Just trying to understand what you are looking for prior to giving a (potentially) usless response .

Fred

 

[len_1962]

use the the DOME tool

 

[Edster]

Sorry I didn't describe what I was trying to do that good. Here's a pic.

Yes it's an ellipse not an oval.

 

[Edster]

use the the DOME tool

View attachment 175936

The Dome tool seems to have worked.

Still curious if it's possible and or how it would be done to sweep the profile along the ellipse. Seems like the radius of the profile would have to change between the wider part of the ellipse and the narrower part.

 

[len_1962]

here is one using a Sweep.

SW SWEEP DOME on an Elipse | Search | Autodesk Knowledge Network

 

[Edster]

here is one using a Sweep.

SW SWEEP DOME on an Elipse | Search | Autodesk Knowledge Network

Thanks!

 

[Freds]

Doesn't reply directly to your question, but was intrigued by it....

Created a hemisphere about the origin and then non-uniformly scaled it in X,Y and Z.

Fred

 

[gallen]

here is one using a Sweep.

SW SWEEP DOME on an Elipse | Search | Autodesk Knowledge Network

How do you not have endpoints on your sketches? How did you get rid of your endpoints when sketching the curves and lines?

 

[len_1962]

How do you not have endpoints on your sketches? How did you get rid of your endpoints when sketching the curves and lines?

it's in the Sketch settings in System Option see pic.
if checked there on if not checked there off

 

[gallen]

I meant on the video you shared. When you used the rollback bar, your different colored sketches did not have endpoints and I wondered if that was because you used the “creating new sketches from selections” tool.

 

[len_1962]

I meant on the video you shared. When you used the rollback bar, your different colored sketches did not have endpoints and I wondered if that was because you used the “creating new sketches from selections” tool.

Nothing fancy, all I did was deselect the check boxes, as seen in the pic I showed you. The check boxes are modal, either you'll see the points or not for every sketch.

I had built it and it was just easier to show in the video rolling back in time to show the sketches I made.