How to use boundary surface function in Solidwork

Roger Couture

8 Mar, 2016 06:33 PM

Your drawing shows a confusion between sweeping and smoothing. You can scan a profile to which you give a fig 1,1B trajectory. But smoothing (2 different profiles) is a gradient of an open or closed profile to another profile figure 2A (or even a point fig 2). Only after smoothing (Fig 2b) may be added to smooth scanning guide curves (Fig 5.5A) or directions (Fig 4).
Better generally make a different sketch for each curve or profile used.
Smoothing is prefered to limit surface that

1. Step 1:

   SWEEP TRACK ALONG
   

   

2. Step 2:

   SWEEP TRACK ALONG WITH CONSTANT NORMAL
   

   

3. Step 3:

   SMOOTHING TO A POINT
   

   

4. Step 4:

   2 PROFILE FOR A SMOOTHING
   

   

5. Step 5:

   SMOOTHING WITHOUT GUIDE LINES
   

   

6. Step 6:

   SMOOTHING WITH ONE GUIDELINE
   

   

7. Step 7:

   SMOOTHING WITH 2 GUIDELINES
   

   

8. Step 8:

   A surface smoothing is preferable to a border area used primarily for closing the meeting of several surfaces cà their borders.