SOLIDWORKS Exercise 1

Lofting Between Surfaces

Exercise 1: Lofting can be accomplished

Lofting using sketches, faces or surfaces.
Between In this example, lofting is
Surfaces performed between two surfaces
to form a solid.
 Loft, which was covered in
the Advanced Part Modeling
course
Units: millimeters

1 Open a part file.

Open LOFT_SURF.sldprt.
The part consists of two imported
surfaces.

2 Insert solid loft.

Using Lofted Boss/Base , select the
two surfaces as the Profiles of the loft.
Pick the surfaces near mating corners, like
you would using sketches.
The result is a single solid body.

3 Hide.
Hide the two surface bodies.

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Lofting Between Surfaces

4 Fillets and shell.

Add fillets with a radius of 12mm and a shell of 3mm to complete the
body.
5 Save and close the file.

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SOLIDWORKS Exercise 2
Finial Wrap

Exercise 2: In this exercise, you will create the wrapped

Finial Wrap pattern around the lower band on the finial.
This lab reinforces the following skills:
 Wrap, which was covered in the Advanced
Part Modeling course
 Thicken
 Loft, which was covered in the Advanced
Part Modeling course
 Extend Surface
 Replace Face
Units: millimeters

1 Open a part file.

Open Finial_Wrap.sldprt.
Notice that there is existing solid geometry and two sketches. The
sketches have been provided in order to get consistent results.
There are also a saved views in the part, Alt_Front and Alt_Iso, that
orient the part as shown in the following images.
2 Create two copies of surface.
Using Offset Surface or Knit Surface, create
two separate copies of the highlighted
cylindrical face shown in the illustration at the
right.
Two copies are needed because you will
create two Wrap features, each of which
consumes one surface body.

3 Hide bodies.
Hide the solid body and all of the surface bodies except one of the
copied surfaces.

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Finial Wrap

4 Wrap feature.
Select the Wrap_Sketch1 in the
FeatureManager design tree.
Click Wrap .
Select the Scribe option. The Scribe option
creates split lines on the target face.
For the Face for Wrap Sketch (the target
face) select the copied surface.
The long rectangle represents the cylindrical
surface flattened onto the sketch plane.
Click OK .

Scribe
5 Delete Face .
Delete the portion of the cylindrical surface
outside of the scribed pattern.
Note Use the Delete option.
Click OK .

Results

6 Repeat.
Repeat steps 4 through 5 using the second copied surface and
Wrap_Sketch2.

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Finial Wrap

7 Thicken the surface bodies.

Create two Thicken features, one from each surface body.
Thicken1:
 Thickness = 1.25mm
 Merge results = Cleared

Thicken1

Thicken2: Thicken2
 Thickness = 1mm
 Merge results = Selected
 Feature Scope = Selected
bodies; Thicken1

8 Create a split line.

Open a new sketch on the Top reference plane, and
sketch a line approximately as shown.
Create a split line on the outer face of the solid body.

9 Change view.
Change to a Back view and then press the down
arrow three times rotating the view 45°.

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Finial Wrap

10 Loft a surface.
Loft a surface between the split line
and the edge at the intersection of
the two bodies.
Use Curvature To Face for both
the start and end constraints.
Which Face? Be sure the curvature is being
related to the appropriate face in
the model. The highlighted faces
indicate which face the constraint is being added to. To modify the face
selection, use the Next Face button in the PropertyManager or use the
arrows in the graphic area.
11 Results.

12 Extend the surface.

The lofted surface will be used to
replace the face of the solid. In order
to do that, the lofted surface must
extend past the solid body.
Click Extend Surface .
Extend the surface 0.50mm using
the Same surface option.

13 Replace face . Replacement surface

Replace the face of the solid
with the lofted surface body.
Hide the remaining surface
body.
The surface color has been
changed here for clarity. Target face

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Finial Wrap

14 Pattern the body.

Make a Circular Pattern with a total of 9 instances of the body around
a temporary axis.

15 Merge the new bodies with the

existing body.
Show the Revolve2 solid body.
Select all the solid bodies in the Solid
Bodies folder.
Right-click and click Combine
from the shortcut menu.
Select the Add option and click
OK .
The color of the patterned wrap
features has been changed for
illustration purposes.
16 Save and close the file.

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Exercise 3 SOLIDWORKS
Flatten Surface

Exercise 3: In this example, you will

Flatten Surface use the Surface Flatten
command to produce an
approximate flat pattern of
the Halyard Guide model.
This lab reinforces the
following skills:
 Surface Flatten
Units: millimeters
1 Open a part file.
Open Halyard
Guide_Flat.sldprt.
2 Roll back.
In the FeatureManager
design tree, position the
rollback bar between the
Mirror2 and Fillet2
features.
3 Flatten surface.
Click Surface Flatten .

For Face/Surface to Flatten , right-click one of the inside faces of

the part and click Select Tangency.

For Vertex or Point on Edge to Flatten From , select the edge

indicated in the image.

Click OK .

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Flatten Surface

4 Optional: View the deformation plot.

Right-click on the resulting surface and select Deformation Plot .

5 Roll to End.
In the FeatureManager design tree, move the rollback bar to the end of
the tree.
6 Hide the surface body.
Click the Surface Bodies folder and click Hide .

7 Save and close the file.

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Flatten Surface

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