From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training

Making lofted cuts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training

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Making lofted cuts

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- Lofted cuts work in almost exactly the same way as a regular loft feature does. I can have multiple profiles on multiple planes, I can have guide curves, I have can start and end conditions, I can have any of the same things I have in a regular loft. I'm going to show you a basic example here. You can see I've got just a rectangular block here, and I've created a sketch on the front plane here and well as one on the back surface, so I've got Sketch2 and I've got Sketch3. And I want to create a lofted feature cut directly through this to create some type of a funnel. Go up here to Lofted Cut, my profiles, I'm going to choose the Sketch2 and Sketch3. Soon as I click on OK, it just makes that conical cut right down through the center of that shape. If you want to go back and refine that a little further, go on to Lofted Cut, click on Edit Feature, I can change the starting and end constraints to maybe give it a little bit more of a scoop. So Normal to Profile, for instance. And adjust the shape a little bit, click on it-- a little too much, there you can see it's sticking out. This is a little harder to view inside, but click OK. You can see how that kind of bends it out a little bit and makes it a profile that's more cut from the side. A great way to look at this is to click on Section View, click on Top Plane. You can see what that shape's starting to look like. You can go back and add a start and end constraint to the other profile, you can add additional profiles on there, you can even start adding some guide curves. All the key features are still there and they're exactly the same as a regular loft. I just wanted to point out the few basic steps to get you started.

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