Lofted Boss To Sheet Metal

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Lofted boss to sheet metal. This tutorial shows how to loft in solidworks step by step. Lofted bend is complete. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

Begin with two open profile sketches. Bricscad allows you to create or recognize lofted sheet metal parts with curvilinear geometry which can be manufactured using multiple bending. Between two rectangles or circles in shape. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

Next step is application of loft boss guide curve feature. Characteristics of lofted bends. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal toolbar. In the profiles section you have to select sketch 1 sketch 2 and sketch 3 and preview are given below.

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. The profile should be closed and you can use it for profiles different e g. Between circle and rectangle or similar e g. Hide plane 1 hide plane 2.

Then you can see loft property manager. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal. Under sheet metal parameters. Solidworks lofted boss base solidworks loft cut how to use loft in solidworks.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. For that go to features command manager and select lofted boss base tool. How to create simple sheet metal bend. Do one of the following.

General procedure to create a sheet metal part with a lofted bend. Loft boss or base is solidworks features tool like extrude boss revolved boss sweep boss etc which mainly helps to add materials between two or more profiles with ease. Launch the smloft command. Use lofted bends to create a solid feature.

Apply lofted boss base guide curves. Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open profile sketches that are connected by a loft.