that is 100% exactly how i do it. It is a great way to do transitions as well (for example from square to circular sections)

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah - lofted bends FTW!!

Thanks for this demo Toby! I have come across, this challenge before in my designs, and now there is a better solution thanks to you! I love that you demo in the old version as well!!

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah glad this helped tamborara station! 2015 is still my favorite, with 2020 coming in a close second. All the newer ones seem like they just get buggier and buggier - but maybe its just me :-)

Nice one, Toby!

@TooTallToby

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Jed!

@jedhightower3225

7 ай бұрын

You're welcome bud!

Thanks toby Putting lot of efforts on channel.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Raju!

What I do sometimes is the single line open profile and in a large radius bend I'll segment the arc and add lines between the points, creating my own facets, just one less plane and sketch to worry about if adding or removing a flange in the og sketch which would leave dangling or missing entities on the converted sketch.

@tctn

8 ай бұрын

That's how I did in the past as well. If I knew the loft trick, I would've used it though. It's kinda cumbersome creating those linear segments manually. Since the second sketch is tied up to the first sketch, for me not big deal having one more sketch in the model tree.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Nice alternate solution. I like it but I do have a question - what do you do if the number of facets needs to change?

@edwardcharron474

8 ай бұрын

You just kick yourself a little, then edit the segment points count, reconnect all your lost references and add or reduce the facet lines. loft tool is going to be worked into its place here on for me, I usually only do a low facet count on thicker plate for the applications I normally design for. I'll also usually call out a rolling process for large sheets of thin gauge 14,12 and 10. if its non critical I leave it to the forming shop as their preference. @@TooTallToby

Great tip

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Thanks barry glad you liked this one!

I would definitely never think of that! Unfortunately, our brain always leads us along known paths instead of challenging us along different paths. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us... it's always an honor to learn from you. #Mage

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Ricardo!

Awesome. Thank you for taking the time to share this solution. This also works in Inventor I just learned =)

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah - NICE!!

Hey man what a big surprise for me to receive your solution for my birthday! That was exactly what I was looking for. Probably I found also another approach that I Will sharywith you in the Next days. Have a Good day😀

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah - thanks for the excellent question!

Thank you to posting this video 😊

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure and glad this helped!

Totally agree, this is 100% the way to do this. The only other alternative method I can think off is to use the sketch segment feature on the arc. Once you apply sheet metal to this sketch it will still show a continuous arc as the arc is split into equal segments. To get around this, highlight all the arc segments and change to construction geometry and then connect the endpoints up with lines. Admittedly, its a super hacky way of doing it and not very useful if you want to go ahead and modify the amount of segments (this process will have to be deleted and re-constructed again), but it is another method. I suppose the only good side to this is that you only need to draw and define one sketch which can be then use as a midpoint end condition so that the plane it was drawn on makes the part symmetric about that plane, rather than creating another plane and converting entities, also makes for a 'tidier tree' if your into that! As i say, this is super hacky and if i was to approcah this in practice in my day job .. 100% lofted bend!

@ExileOnDaytonStreet

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, this was loosely the direction that my mind went to originally, but that's because I'd completely forgotten about lofted bends.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Same - I thought about doing it as a fragmented "arc" sketch built from lines - but I was very glad that lofted bends worked and saved me a ton of time!

You must get your steak well done cause you are doing a great job on this channel

@TooTallToby

6 ай бұрын

lololol - thanks justin :-)

awesome!!

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah!

Thanks Toby, this is really useful method, for me I didn't know that Lofted-Bend can work on open sketch.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

nice BlueRay - Glad this helps!

There is another way to do this: divide the circle into equal parts and make the circle an auxiliary line and draw new lines from the division points and extend the sheet in this way.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Nice! that's an awesome solution and thanks for the suggestion!

O did a lot of Lofted bends. Dragoș

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

nice - thanks dragos!

It'd be interesting if you could show ways to work around the same problem in other software, i.e. Inventor, Fusion, OnShape, etc. Even you don't show them all, perhaps a quick soundbite about the possibility of using any other software. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if only Solidworks has something that can do it, it seems the most well developed in the non Super high end type of CAD.

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

yeah I did that with this tutorial: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z66pm5Rtkdqniaw.html Thanks for the feedback - good to know that this type of content is useful - and I'll definitely do more of these "cad vs cad" comparisons in the future! :-)

@BlackSmokeDMax

8 ай бұрын

@@TooTallToby awesome, thanks!

just my ignorance, shouldn't be different the inside radius of curved the surface?

@TooTallToby

2 ай бұрын

yes - it will be different

Finally

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

Awww yeah!

how can you make offset line (bend deduction) to show on my flat in the drawing? instead of me offsetting every bend line on the flat (drawing)? let say .059 crs thickness (we use r.030 and b.d. is 095), i need to show that .095 offset from the bend line (solidworks generate) for shop (brake dept.). thank you john

Haven't watched the whole thing yet but I sense a lofted bend coming! Good to see you doing SOLIDWORKS content bud!

@TooTallToby

8 ай бұрын

you know it!