Tutorial: Business Card Holder Chapter 5. Feature 1 – Lofted Base INTRODUCTION TO SOLID MODELING USING SOLIDWORKS 2009.

Tutorial: Business Card Holder

Chapter 5

Feature 1 – Lofted Base

INTRODUCTION TO SOLID MODELING USING SOLIDWORKS 2009

Feature 1 (cont.)

• At least two sketches are required for lofted solid

Guide Curve


Feature 2 – Extruded Cut


Feature 3 - Shell

• Shell command removes a face and leaves a constant-thickness thin structure


Feature 5 - Fillets


Feature 6 - Fillet


Re-Ordering of Features

• By filleting after the shell operation, the wall thickness is not constant

• Better order of operations: add fillets first, and then shell the part


Re-Ordering of Features (cont.)

Click & Drag


Feature 7 – Raised Text


Tutorial: Business Card Holder Chapter 5. Feature 1 – Lofted Base INTRODUCTION TO SOLID MODELING USING SOLIDWORKS 2009.

Documents

solid modeling

lofted solid introduction

fillets introduction

fillet introduction

structure introduction

lofted base introduction

extruded cut introduction

raised text introduction