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Lesson 10: Loft Features: Profiles

This document provides a lesson on using loft features in SolidWorks. The goals are to create a chisel and profiles using lofts. It includes exercises to build a chisel, bottle, funnel, and screwdriver using loft features. The lesson emphasizes that a loft blends multiple profiles together and can be used to create bases, bosses, or cuts. It also notes that selecting profiles in order and corresponding points on each is important for neat lofts.

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Lesson 10: Loft Features: Profiles

This document provides a lesson on using loft features in SolidWorks. The goals are to create a chisel and profiles using lofts. It includes exercises to build a chisel, bottle, funnel, and screwdriver using loft features. The lesson emphasizes that a loft blends multiple profiles together and can be used to create bases, bosses, or cuts. It also notes that selecting profiles in order and corresponding points on each is important for neat lofts.

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Lesson 10: Loft Features

Goals of This Lesson




Your students will be able to create the following part:

profiles

chisel

Resources for This Lesson


This lesson plan corresponds to the Lofts module in the SolidWorks Online Tutorials. For
more information about the Online Tutorials, See Online Tutorials on page v.

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Active Learning Exercises Creating the Chisel


Create the chisel. Follow the instructions in
the Building Models: Lofts module in the
SolidWorks Online Tutorials.

chisel
5 Minute Assessment
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What features were used to create the chisel? ______________________________


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Describe the steps required to create the first Loft feature for the chisel.
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What is the minimum number of profiles required for a Loft feature?
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Describe the steps to copy a Sketch onto another plane. _________________________
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Exercises and Projects Creating the Bottle


Create the bottle as shown in the drawing.

Note: All dimensions in the Bottle exercise are in millimeters.

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Exercises and Projects Creating a Bottle with Elliptical Base


Create bottle2 with an elliptical
extruded boss feature. The top of the bottle
is circular. Design bottle2 with your own
dimensions.

bottle2

Exercises and Projects Creating a Funnel


Create the funnel as shown in the drawing below.


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Use 1mm for the wall thickness.

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Exercises and Projects Creating a Screwdriver


Create the screwdriver.


Use inches for the units.

Create the handle as the first feature.


Use a revolved feature.

Create the shaft as the second feature.


Use an extruded feature.

The overall length of the blade (shaft and


tip together) is 7 inches. The tip is 2
inches long. Compute the length of the
shaft.

Create the tip as the third feature.


Use a loft feature.

Create the sketch for the end of the


tip first. This is a rectangle 0.50
by 0.10.

The middle or second profile


is sketched using a 0.10 offset
(to the outside) of the tip.

The third profile is the circular


face on the end of the shaft.

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Matching Tangency

When you want to blend a loft


feature into an existing feature
such as the shaft, it is desirable
to have the face blend smoothly.
Look at the illustrations at the
right. In the upper one, the tip
was lofted with tangency
matching to the shaft. The lower
example was not.

Tangency

No Tangency

In the Start/End Constraints


box of the PropertyManager,
there are some tangency
options. End constraint
applies to the last profile,
which in this case, is the face
on the end of the shaft.
Note: If you picked the face
of the shaft as the first
profile, you would
use the Start
constraint option.
The option Tangent To Face
will make the lofted feature
tangent to the sides of the
shaft.

The result is shown at the right.

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More to Explore Designing a Sports Drink Bottle


Task 1


Design a 16 ounce sportsbottle. How would you


calculate the capacity of the bottle?

Create a cap for the sportsbottle.

Create a sportsbottle assembly.

cap

Question

How many liters are contained in the sportsbottle?

sports
bottle

Conversion


1 fluid ounce = 29.57ml

Answer:

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sportsbottle
assembly

Task 2

A designer for your company receives the following cost information:




Sports Drink = $0.32 per gallon based on 10,000 gallons

16 ounce sport bottle = $0.11 each based on 50,000 units

Question

How much does it cost to produce a filled 16 oz. sportsbottle to the nearest cent?
Answer:

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Lesson Summary


A Loft blends multiple profiles together.

A Loft feature can be a base, boss, or cut.

Neatness counts!

Select the profiles in order.


Click corresponding points on each profile.
The vertex closest to the selection point is used.

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