Scribd
Upload
1K views28 pages

3 Assignment 3 Lofting

This document provides instructions for using OnShape to create a lofted 3D object from 2D sketches on different planes. The steps include: 1. Creating new sketches on separate planes 4 inches apart and making 9-sided polygons of different sizes on each plane. 2. Using the loft tool to connect the sketches, adding facets to smoothly transition between the profiles and generate a 3D shape. 3. Repeating the process multiple times to create additional sketches and loft between them, constructing a complex vase-like object out of the series of lofts. The instructions demonstrate the lofting tool in OnShape to form 3D geometry from 2D profiles on different planes.

Uploaded by

api-294653971
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
1K views28 pages

3 Assignment 3 Lofting

This document provides instructions for using OnShape to create a lofted 3D object from 2D sketches on different planes. The steps include: 1. Creating new sketches on separate planes 4 inches apart and making 9-sided polygons of different sizes on each plane. 2. Using the loft tool to connect the sketches, adding facets to smoothly transition between the profiles and generate a 3D shape. 3. Repeating the process multiple times to create additional sketches and loft between them, constructing a complex vase-like object out of the series of lofts. The instructions demonstrate the lofting tool in OnShape to form 3D geometry from 2D profiles on different planes.

Uploaded by

api-294653971
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 28

OnShape

Assignment 3
Lofting
By: Mr. Gravitt
Notes
• #‘ is feet & #” means inches.
• Hotkeys AKA Keyboard Shortcuts – Hotkeys
speed things up, once you learn them, & they
allow you to draw way faster. However, they it
takes awhile to learn them all…
• See the next page for a full list &/or - Shift Key
& ? – Brings up the full list at anytime in the
Software!!!
• Escape Key – unselects things.
• Hold the shift key – you can select multiple
things at once.
Step 1 Your Mr Gravitt’s Lessons Folder
you made in lesson 1
Step 2.1 Create a Document named
Assignment 2 Revolving
Step 2.2 Create a Document named
Assignment 3 Lofting
Step 2.3 on the assignment
Create a New Sketch
Step 2.4 Name the New Sketch
(Base Drawing)
Step 2.5 View it in 2D
Step 3.1 Polygon Tool
• This software has a
“Polygon Tool”
• I will later show you
how to make polygons
in software programs
that don’t have a
Polygon Tool.
• Click this tool
• Go to the Origin Point
in the Center 0,0,0
Step 3.2 Polygon Tool
• Drag out a Polygon, I choose to make one with 9
sides.
Step 3.3 Measure out the Polygon
• Select the
Dimension tool.
• Measure out the
polygon.
• I choose to
measure from
the origin to a
facet.
• I choose to size
it 3 inches.
Step 3.4
• Finish Drawing by
clicking the green
checkmark.
• Go to Trimetric View
(AKA 3D View)
• Next we are going to
make a new PLANE.
Step 4.1 Inserting a New Plane
• Get the new plane tool from the ribbon.
• Remember a Plane is like a “desktop, a table,
that you can place drawings/sketches on”
Step 4.2 Inserting a New Plane
• Select the plane
tool.
• I choose to
select Offset
• I choose to
Offset off of the
Top Plane.
• I went up 4
inches.
• So, Plane 1
appears 4 in up.
Step 4.3 Inserting a New Plane
• Named it Top
Plane 2
• Click green
checkmark to
finish/insert it.
Step 4.4 Inserting a New Plane
• Click Top Plane 2.
• I right clicked to get
the new sketch.
• Remember you can
also just hit the new
sketch button in the
ribbon, &/or use
hotkeys. There is
almost always 3
different ways of
doing anything…
Step 4.5 Inserting a New Plane
• Renamed it Plane 2
Drawing.
• Go to 3D view /
trimetric view / & in
this case top view,
all 3 are
synonymous with
each other in this
situation.
• We have made a
new plane & put
drawing on it…
Step 5.1 2nd Drawing
• Made “Top Plane
2” & put drawing
“Plane 2 Drawing”
on that plane.
Have drawing
“Plane 2 Drawing”
selected. Looking
down on it in 2D
• NOTE: Even though we
view.
can clearly see the base
• Can see the “Base drawing, we are going to
Drawing” be drawing 4 inches
underneath it. above it on Plane 2.
Step 5.2 2nd Drawing
• I choose to make a
another 9 facet polygon
• I choose to make it 4
inches.
• Not worrying about
making anything line up
other than the origin.
• Finish the sketch.
• Then go to 3D View, &
then you can see what
we have done.
Step 5.3 2nd Drawing
• You can spin
it around &
see what we
have done.
• Next we are
going to LOFT
these 2
drawing
together to
make a 3D
object.
Step 6.1
Lofting
• Select the
Lofting tool
• The Lofting Tool lets you add or subtract
material in-between 2 OR MORE drawings to
make a 3D object.
• It puts in smooth curves of material
• It tries to figure out facets, we can tell it which
facets, & by doing so we can curve, bevel,
wrap, & etc…
Step 6.2 Lofting
• Select the drawings you
want to loft.
• NOTE: There are many,
many options here, we
are keeping it simple for
now…
Step 6.3 Lofting
• THIS IS
JUST AN
EXAMPLE…
• Here I put
some facets
on it.
• You could put
facets &/or
rounds.
• &/or etc…
Step 6.4 Lofting Multiple Drawings

• Here, I just repeated the steps.


• I made a total of 8 planes & drawings.
• Going to make a Vase.
Step 6.5 Lofting

• Select the drawings you want to loft.


Step 6.6 Part Done

• Spin it around & take a look, It’s done…


• With lofting you can make all kinds of organic
shapes…
Next
Assignment 4
Sweeping

You might also like