Lofted Boss To Sheet Metal

Click features lofted boss base click bottom circle middle circle top circle.

Lofted boss to sheet metal.

How to create simple sheet metal 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. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

General procedure to create a sheet metal part with a lofted bend. Begin with two open profile sketches. 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. Then you can see loft property manager.

Lofted bend is complete. Next step is application of loft boss guide curve feature. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal. Characteristics of lofted bends.

Under sheet metal parameters. Between circle and rectangle or similar e g. Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open profile sketches that are connected by a loft. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. This tutorial shows how to loft in solidworks step by step. Solidworks lofted boss base solidworks loft cut how to use loft in solidworks. The profile should be closed and you can use it for profiles different e g.

For that go to features command manager and select lofted boss base tool. Apply lofted boss base guide curves. The base flange feature is not used with the lofted bend feature. Bricscad allows you to create or recognize lofted sheet metal parts with curvilinear geometry which can be manufactured using multiple bending.

Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal toolbar. Do one of the following. If you re new to solidworks i would recommend you get my solidworks tutorial beginner ebook. 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. Use lofted bends to create a solid feature.