Lofted Boss To Sheet Metal

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

Lofted boss to sheet metal.

The profile should be closed and you can use it for profiles different e g. Bricscad allows you to create or recognize lofted sheet metal parts with curvilinear geometry which can be manufactured using multiple bending. Begin with two open profile sketches. Click features lofted boss base click bottom circle middle circle top circle.

Launch the smloft command. How to create simple sheet metal bend. To find out more about lofted bends you need to dig a little deeper into help and do a search for bent lofted bends unfortunately at this current time i am only able to find information about formed lofted bends in the solidworks training manual for sheet metal. Use lofted bends to create a solid feature.

For that go to features command manager and select lofted boss base tool. Between two rectangles or circles in shape. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Hide plane 1 hide plane 2.

Apply lofted boss base guide curves. The base flange feature is not used with the lofted bend feature. Solidworks lofted boss base solidworks loft cut how to use loft in solidworks. Do one of the following.

General procedure to create a sheet metal part with a lofted bend. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal toolbar. Under sheet metal parameters.

Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open profile sketches that are connected by a loft. Next step is application of loft boss guide curve feature. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. How to create hex bolt.

In the profiles section you have to select sketch 1 sketch 2 and sketch 3 and preview are given below. This tutorial shows how to loft in solidworks step by step. Between circle and rectangle or similar e g. If you re new to solidworks i would recommend you get my solidworks tutorial beginner ebook.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Lofted bend is complete.