I want to make a surface "tapered" to the surface(shown below) in Solidworks. I tried to use sweep tool, but the section is twisted, and doesn't remain the given angle to the surface. It is easy to achieve in Creo, as we can control the orientation of the section.
I found a tool called "normal to surface" in Ruled surface in Solidworks, it is close to what I want. But I really want a specified angle to the surface.
Someone have an idea on this? Please let me know, appreciate.
3D is attached.
Thank you Kyle.
This could be a method to the simple surface (like the demo I attached) even though the section is not exact 80° to the surface. When we come to a complicated surface, that would be a lot of work.
Looks like I have to use alternative CAD software
Tommy
What's wrong with sweep?
Make one ruled Surface (normal to) then make another ruled Surface normal to the last one. Set the distance accoringly and finally loftet to the outside contour. Then you should have a Surface with equal angle all around.
Great thinking!
Annoying that you can't seem to enter equations in to ruled surface to get the exact values?
You could also try to add draft to your ruled (normal to) surface.....
I'm not OP I just really like the double ruled surface idea
I think the draft feature won't suit OP because that would be angled to a direction of pull, where he needs it angled relative to the angle of the surface, which constantly changes around the perimeter.
I don't think there is a one feature solution to this in SW.
You can also Offset thicken - move face to get the second contur for your loft … should get you the same result.
From memory specifying the section at an angle to the surface edge then using 'tangent to adjacent faces' profile twist option keeps the angle constant to the surface edge normal.... could be wrong though
Edit, sorry, that does not work. Sort of does in some situations (like on a surface edge that does not twist much)
Shame SW does not have the equivalent of swept blend.
..not sure how accurate but it should be very close... so do a ruled (normal or tangent) or extended (linear) ..those give you distance and Guide Curve reference to use for your Profile at 10 degs..(image)
Thank you everyone for sharing your great idea. Since there is no direct tool to solve this, we can only use workaround.
I like @Elmar Klammer's solution that is the most close to my need. I made another demo using this solution for your reference.First I made a ruled(10°) surface in Creo for comparing, and imported them in SW. Then I use Elmar's solution to make an offset surface to do loft to get our desired surface. Comparing these 2 surfaces, there is very very little deviation.
Hi,
You could try using the loft tool but sketch more profiles to control the angle around the perimeter.
Thanks, Kyle
EDIT - I've came across needing this myself, anything in SW will be a work around, there is no direct tool to do this. Ruled surface can taper to a vector but not to a surface.
I also used another software to do it.