Advanced Surfacing in SolidWorks 2010

SolidWorks 2010 Advanced Surfacing Demonstration created by Secant Technology AE Tommy Ray
www.secanttech.com

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Science & Technology

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• Secant Technology
• SOlidWorks
• SolidWorks 2010
• Surfacing
• 3D Modeling

[sbruffin]

You must make sure there are four distinct edges. The FreeForm tool expects these edges to determine the direction of the M and N lines. It is also important that your sketch which creates the geometry be a spline. A good work flow is to create you geometry using lines, and arcs, convert this entities to construction geometry, then use a Fit Spline, select your construction geometry and deselect the Closed Spline option. This will allow you to control your surfaces easily.

[atscanito]

I am trying to do the same bottle. Everything is ok until I try to use the Freeform.

an error says " Freeform feature cannot use this face. It contains a degerate point "

Even I tried Surface revolving and the same.

Thanks

[sbruffin]

@atscanito

You need to leave an opening at the bottom of the bottle. If you close the sketch completely at the origin, it will give you this error.

[BPMagic1]

When you performed the Freeform operation SolidWorks did not bark at you for not having a 4-sided face. Are 4-sided faces not required in SW 2010 to perform Freeform?

[sbruffin]

@BPMagic1 SolidWorks does have to have 4 edges when creating the surface loft, but I did this with splines and therefore SW counted the two sides, the top and bottom opening as my 4 edges. If you created this using arcs and lines then you would have multiple edges and SW would limit your ability to FreeForm those edges.

[sbruffin]

@BPMagic1 I decided to put out a follow up video for the Advanced Surfacing. You can find it at the link below.

/watch?v=qx48RH1Z2z4

[SteelCityBoilermaker]

Very cool. Thanks dude!

[skellington1990]

A "two point spline" hmm, I thought the standard nomenclature was "a line"



[ciarlond]

I am wondering about the final quality. I would have used higher continuity within the "spline" + , after the first "rotational surface", I would have used a deformation tool for targeting a second slihouette curve.

It is also a pity that a fillet failed.

[Ihopenowitsok]

Hello mate. First of all, thx lot for the video.

So, instead of using a swept surface, couldnt you use a 180° revolved surface function? Thx.

[ClaironAurelio]

que legal! eu não sabia que podia colocar imagem no SW.

[apsaada]

Very informative and thorough tutorial. Going to try modeling one of my son's bottles now! Thanks.

[illdead]

Hi all soldworks users,

as a 3ds Max user myself, I was wondering what are the advantages, if any, to working in solidworks on a project like this as opposed to other 3d modeling tools?

Is this bottle ready to be molded in real plastic or are there still steps that need to be taken?

Thank you.

[dattilotech]

Thanks for posting, very good information.