SOLIDWORKS At Home: Sketch Pictures and Style Splines
In this series of SOLIDWORKS At Home, Sean designs a sheath for his fancy new chef knife to print on his 3D printer.
For part 1, Sean covers the use of the Sketch Picture tool to design around a photo of the knife and the use of the Style Spline (Bezier and B-spline) to capture its natural curves.
Keep an eye out for part 2 that will cover splitting the body in two to aid in 3D printing, using multi-body part design to create a swivel lock to keep the blade in the sheath, and setting up the sweep feature.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - Starting the Sketch Picture
2:14 - Starting the Style Splines
4:00 - Evaluating the Spline
4:52 - Converting a Bezier Spline into a 3rd Degree B-Spline (but still under the Style Spline tool)
5:30 - Offsetting (with Offset Entities) and minimum radius of curvature issues
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Music credits:
Song: "You Are Never Alone" Artist: DJ Quads / djquads