Lofted Boss To Sheet Metal

The base flange feature is not used with the lofted bend feature.

Lofted boss to sheet metal.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. For that go to features command manager and select lofted boss base tool. Begin with two open profile sketches. Characteristics of lofted bends.

Launch the smloft command. Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open profile sketches that are connected by a loft. In the profiles section you have to select sketch 1 sketch 2 and sketch 3 and preview are given below. General procedure to create a sheet metal part with a lofted bend.

Solidworks lofted boss base solidworks loft cut how to use loft in solidworks. Between circle and rectangle or similar e g. Click features lofted boss base click bottom circle middle circle top circle. If you re new to solidworks i would recommend you get my solidworks tutorial beginner ebook.

Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal toolbar. 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. 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.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Between two rectangles or circles in shape. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Lofted bend is complete.

Use lofted bends to create a solid feature. Apply lofted boss base guide curves. Hide plane 1 hide plane 2. Then you can see loft property manager.

This tutorial shows how to loft in solidworks step by step. Do one of the following. The profile should be closed and you can use it for profiles different e g. How to create hex bolt.

Bricscad allows you to create or recognize lofted sheet metal parts with curvilinear geometry which can be manufactured using multiple bending. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.