Lofted Boss To Sheet Metal

Then you can see loft property manager.

Lofted boss to sheet metal. This tutorial shows how to loft in solidworks step by step. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal toolbar. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

Characteristics of lofted bends. Use lofted bends to create a solid feature. Bricscad allows you to create or recognize lofted sheet metal parts with curvilinear geometry which can be manufactured using multiple bending. 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.

Next step is application of loft boss guide curve feature. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Between circle and rectangle or similar e g. Click features lofted boss base click bottom circle middle circle top circle.

In the profiles section you have to select sketch 1 sketch 2 and sketch 3 and preview are given below. Begin with two open profile sketches. Under sheet metal parameters. How to create hex bolt.

Hide plane 1 hide plane 2. Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open profile sketches that are connected by a loft. Solidworks lofted boss base solidworks loft cut how to use loft in solidworks. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

Apply lofted boss base guide curves. Lofted bend is complete. How to create simple sheet metal bend. Launch the smloft command.

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. The base flange feature is not used with the lofted bend feature. General procedure to create a sheet metal part with a lofted bend.

For that go to features command manager and select lofted boss base tool. Click the create lofted bend tool button on the sheet metal.