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Composite Curve Tutorial: Beginner'S Guide To Solidworks Books

This document provides a tutorial on creating and using composite curves in SolidWorks. It explains that a composite curve merges multiple edges or sketch entities into a single continuous curve that can be used for sweeps or lofts. The tutorial demonstrates how to select edges to create a composite curve, and then use the composite curve as the path for a sweep to cut a shape along the curve. It additionally shows how to edit an existing composite curve by reordering sketches and adding additional edges.

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Composite Curve Tutorial: Beginner'S Guide To Solidworks Books

This document provides a tutorial on creating and using composite curves in SolidWorks. It explains that a composite curve merges multiple edges or sketch entities into a single continuous curve that can be used for sweeps or lofts. The tutorial demonstrates how to select edges to create a composite curve, and then use the composite curve as the path for a sweep to cut a shape along the curve. It additionally shows how to edit an existing composite curve by reordering sketches and adding additional edges.

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Composite Curve Tutorial


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Disclaimer: These models and drawings are not meant for manufacturing but as a teaching aid to practice SolidWorks modeling. MechaniCAD Inc. authorizes you to print this guide as long as it is not changed or modified in any way, and credit is given to us where appropriate. Wed love to hear your comments and suggestions, please send us an email at: [email protected]

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Composite Curve:
A composite curve is used to merge multiple model edges and/or sketch entities to make a single continuous curve to be used for sweeps and lofts as a path or guide curve. Open the part located in our server or make a similar shape for this example. www.mechanicad.com/download/composite-curve.sldprt

To make a composite curve, select the Curves, Composite Curve icon from the features tab in the Command Manager, or select the menu Insert, Curve, Composite

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Select all the edges that will make the curve for the path. To select all the edges, we can either select them one by one, window-select them, or, since all of the edges are tangent, we can Right-Mouse-Click on one edge and pick Select Tangency from the pop-up menu. All tangent edges are selected automatically.

Click on OK to finish the command. The Composite Curve is created and added to the Feature Manager.

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Now we can make a sketch to be used as a profile, and make a sweep using the Composite Curve just created as a path.

Exit the sketch. 4

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Select the menu Insert, Cut, Sweep and use this sketch as profile and the composite curve as a path.

When completing the cut sweep, we realize that the resulting feature is not giving us the desired result at the end of the path.

To get the result we want, move the rollback bar just above the Cut Sweep feature, and make a sketch as indicated next:

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Now select the face indicated, and make a sketch as a single line. This line can be dimensioned if necessary.

Make the line collinear to the last edge of the model.

And exit the sketch. Expand the Cut-Sweep1 feature, and move the rollback bar forward just before the Cut-Sweep1

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

We can reorder features in the Feature Manager; in order for us to make Sketch3 part of CompCurve1, Sketch3 must be located above it. Click and drag Sketch3 above as indicated.

Now we can edit the CompCurve1, to add the Sketch3 to it.

Click OK to finish. Now Sketch3 is part of CompCurve1.

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Beginners Guide to SolidWorks Books Composite Curve Tutorial

Now drag the rollback bar all the way to the bottom, and finish the part.

Now the Cut-Sweep1 feature cuts through the part as desired.

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