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‘lofting to a point’

Two Super Sizzlin’ Ways to Shape… Using SolidWorks Loft to Point

03 Nov, 2009 by Josh Mings in CAD
3D Human CAD Models

I’m judging by that look in your eye and the 50 lb sledge hammer in your hand that you’re aimin’ to beat something into shape. But before you pin me down, let me throw something sizzlin’ your way.

How does this sound? Two ways to shape the shapes you love to shape using SolidWorks to get those lovely, lovely shapes. Now, before this sinks too much further into a gurgling mire of Suessville shenanigans, lets take a look at some interesting methods to form and fit and fit and form points of lofts and lofts of points… rrrrrrrrrrgh.

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Prepare Your Tentacles. How To Loft a Surface To a Point in SolidWorks

21 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in CAD

A horn, a tentacle. Who knows what you may need to model these days. Why just the other day I had to model the pinnacle of perfection, and let me tell you, it had the sharpest point within a five and a half mile radius.

Whatever it is, if it needs to come to a sharp point, you’re in luck. SolidWorks can do that and it’s really, super easy. A profile, a path, a point. Three steps and you have a loft that traverses to the finite limits of your sanity and imagination. Sounds cool huh. Here’s the process.

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