SW Tutorial: ''Surface modeling''. Modeling a blade for a wind turbine (part 2 of 2)

In this tutorial, I will show how to model an aerodynamic blade for a wind turbine, primarily using surface techniques, and other features in SolidWorks CAD.
The download link to the picture to use is: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D820923_430453_609327 (instant download)
I hope you will find this tutorial useful.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• solidworks
• surface
• surfaces
• loft
• lofted
• spline
• splines
• curve
• curves
• wind turbine
• blade
• aerodynamic
• cad
• tutorial

[himood]

Hi, Is there a reason why you did not mirror half the blade? you did loft surface instead ! Thanks

[klunk4real]

@himood

Yea.

The two halfes are not identic ;)

[DeLorean4]

@MOTODESIGN09 My loft feature is VERY picky as well. Usually after two guide curves solidworks starts to rebel against me.

[JYVSunil]

@MOTODESIGN09 You should choose the select groups option in the selection manager while selecting the guide curves

[TheHackDeath]

Thank you for sharing, thank you for the snippets of information with a simple talk through of the comands your using, great.

[SharkfordMixes]

Thanks so much for the tutorial, really useful!

[BloodyValentine313]

@MOTODESIGN09 you have to click the green check mark after you chose each guild line. haven't gotten past that yet though.

[ianrak0]

@MOTODESIGN09 its a pain in the ass but i figured it out, for every time you click a new line to loft to you have to do the selection manager thing and then it works out, you should figure it out with that atleast.

[MOTODESIGN09]

This tutorial is very hard to follow. I cannot get the loft commands to work like yours. I follow exactly but to no avail. it is at 0:29sec of this video. I select the top half of the second guide but it will not allow me to select the bottom half! Are you doding something else that your not saying. I have attempted this 24 times! Am I missing something because I am following along exactly.

[AndrewCSar]

very useful. Thanx. very very explicit. Me like.

Can you make a video with the whole wind turbine done ?:D