I just drew up a U shape with a lofted bend, and specified the angle to be 10degrees. But measuring the angle reveals that it is wrong, why is that so? This makes me not wanting to use the lofted bend for this shape - but other methods are SO much more straining on the processing power....
I did already, please check the original post. Was this message delayed somehow?
There are some delays theses days, because very often the posts are "moderated".
Lauritz Berg schrieb:
so Solidworks cannot solve this properly and I have to do it with a sketched bend?
No, that's not necessary. I've used Lofted Bend with the same parameters as seen in your post. After that I've changed the Feature and switched to "Number of Bends" and reduced the counter n-1 - in your case from 12 to 11. And then I'*ve got the result as you can see in my screenshot. Exact 10 deg!
Your measuring shows 171. wich means 9 deg. It's only the calculation failure, when SWX calculations the number of bends... noting more. So please contact your VAR and let him submit an SR to SOLIDWORKS, so they can fix this.
Lauritz Berg - If the sketch says 80deg then the part will come out at 80deg, where or which surfaces are you dimensioning??
Upload your part if you can, or a sample part.
yes, it comes out at 80degrees, but can I somehow influence the bends more?
the setting (max) 10degrees could give me 10 bends with 10degrees each - but instead I get this weird measurement (which we cannot reproduce accurately anyhow).
If I go 10.5degrees I get 11 bends that measure 5/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/5 - which is way better than those weird measurements. We still need 10x10degree bends here and we do have a sketched bend part that does exactly this, but it slows down performance greatly & changing bend angles (i.e. to 11 bends) is extra horrible.
I'll modify the part a bit so I can post it here after lunch.
It's a "classic" n-1 issue:
Would have been much easier with a sample part from you as there are absolutely no secrets in your part...
Have a nice one!
I added a part now.
Heiko Sohnholz - so Solidworks cannot solve this properly and I have to do it with a sketched bend?
Since submitting for the TTL for the 3DExperience World 2021 is open I made a request there to improve the lofted bend feature:
Add better controls to the lofted bend feature
I appreciate any feedback for this request and would be delighted if you would vote for it.
Hi,
maybe it's a good idea to upload a sample part here for clarification...