From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Sketch loft profiles for a handgrip - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Sketch loft profiles for a handgrip
- [Illustrator] In the previous video we started actually modeling up our game controller but all we made was this simple block. And you probably wouldn't be able to guess what this is going to become. In this video, we're going to start to set up a loft feature to add a more flowing hand grip to the side here. Lofts generally contain two or more sketches and ours is going to have three. The first one's going to be on the back edge of this block here. But before we draw that, let's just all make sure that we're looking at the block from the same side. Go over to the design tree and hover over the standard planes. You should have the front plane, the top plane and the right plane. And we want to make sure that the right plane is on the right-hand side of the block. So move your model around so it looks something like this and we want to start a sketch on that back face that's hidden. So to spin your model around a…
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Create the initial controller shape5m 22s
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Sketch loft profiles for a handgrip8m 5s
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Use lofts to make a flowing grip6m 4s
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Smooth the controller grip using fillets2m 58s
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Add the second half using mirroring3m 47s
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Add button and joystick pads6m 7s
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Hollow out the model using the shell feature2m 57s
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