From the course: Modeling a Bicycle Frame with SOLIDWORKS 2014

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Advanced lofting and filling

Advanced lofting and filling

- Go ahead and open file 01_07_Lofting_and_Filling_Continued_Start. And following on from the previous video, I have now completed all the lofted portions between all the tubes of the triangle. What we've left to do now is to fill all these remaining holes. For that we will be using the Filled Surface command. Go ahead and activate the command. And what we can see as the initial option is that we need to specify the Patch Boundaries. Now I'm gonna be focusing on the head section again. And the Patch Boundaries in our case would be all the available edges from the underlying surfaces. So what we can do is go ahead and select each of the surfaces to create the patch. And that is pretty much the result. The next option that we need to consider is the curvature control for each of the edges. Now that's gonna be dependent again on the particular profile so you'll have to make a judgement call for that. I'm gonna go ahead and select Tangent. And when I do that, what you'll notice is that…

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