Hi,
I need to create a solid model of a blade so that I can do some finite element analysis on ANSYS. The file attached includes the profiles of the blade. Is there anyone out there who can have a look at the IGES file attached and guide me through on how to create the model on Solidworks (I am a newbie)? Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
I think I know the process of constructing the model. It is just that I have been unable to work with each section separately. Is there any way of separating each profile, so that I can use the loft function?
To select individual section curves, read up on using Selection Manager in the online help. Having said that, you're digitized data has too many control points to produce useable surfaces. A lot of people use Rhino for this kind of surface modeling because it's able to make CV patches and normalized surfaces wheras Solidworks is going to prerform strict interpolation though the vertices.
To model this in Solidworks, you'll need to weed and simplify the number of spline points on your cross sections. There's probably a utility for that in your digitizer program. Otherwise you'll need to trace over them with simplified representations. After you've done that, I'd recommend using a boundary feature instead of a loft.
John
Create a plane for each profile, if I understand your question correctly.
I don't have the time to open and review your part but have you tried 3d Content Central to find similar geometry to review? Downloading a part similar to yours as an example to see how it is constructed in SolidWorks may give you ideas that you need to recreate your blade.