I keep getting the error "The thin loft failed. Please consider trying a smaller thickness(es)" when trying to use the Lofted Bends feature.
It's come up a few times while working today, can anyone provide an explanation to this?
I've attached one of the files it keep occuring in. Yet it has no problem functioning for other similar geomerty....
Thanks.
Good morning Craig,
Works for me
Later,
John
Would you mind describing your proccess?
Mine looks like:
- With part open, go to Insert->Sheet Metal->Lofted Bends (I actually click it from a toolbar.)
- Selected the inside curve. (3DSketch2)
- Selected the outside curve (3Dsketch3)
- Adjust thickness to 0.5"
- Click the ok button(Check mark)
- Thin loft failed error shows up.
If you reverse the order of the sketches , ie select 3Dsketch3 first, the error "Loft operation failed to complete" is thrown.
I've found that for smaller thicknesses it works fine. The cut-off is somewhere between 0.35" and 0.375"
This occurs in SW 2013-SP1.
Good morning Craig,
It may be by selecting the sketch in the feature tree, try selecting the ends of the sketch (vertex), Mine didn't come up with any errors, now I just upgraded to 2013 SP2,
Later,
John
Upgrade to SP2.
RMBing on a vertex->Select Other->Point for both sketches produces the same result.
Try this one
This part fails with a thickness greater than ~0.35 as well.
The two curve don't lie on a plane. Could this have something to do with it?
It works here, with the thickness of up to about .355, which makes me think there might be an issue with your sheet metal settings, did you get my message ???
I did get your mesage. I'm up here in Canada, so doubt I'll phone.
I would email, but I prefer to keep everything in the thread for anyone who may come across it.
Craig,
That's fine, like I mentioned I would send the part to your VAR, because it doesn't act consistantly,
Later,
John
Craig,
I did try different different thickness's and I made changes in the Loft edit box and then the error shows up, if you double click the Lofted Bend Feature Icon, then change the number on the dimension dialog box then it works up to a certain dimension. I did this multiple times and each time there are varing results. Also three times SW crashed while making those changes. So I would suggest contacting your VAR and having them send it to SW, to see if there is a bug, which I expect....
John
I suppose that is what I'll do at this point.
If nothing else, it's reassuring to know that I'm not just losing my mind and that the problem is replicatable.
It's very odd, as I have an identical part with a small center line raduis that works no problem.
I'll post up here if my VAR ever gets back to me about it.
If they don't get back to me, I'll try remember to come close this thread. Or post a solution/workaround I've found since. Whichever is more appropriate.
Thanks for the help.
Craig,
You're welcome, however no help from here except keeping you from walking into the asylum
It really reacts weird, and it works this way, make some changes and it blows up, oh well, I hope you can discover the issue....
Later,
John
I caught this thread as I was having the same message come up with a part I am working on..... I may just give up and check-in to the looney bin.
I opened your file no problem however and the Thin feature worked fine on my unit.
Best of luck to you,
Jonathan
Anybody?
I still have not solve this issue.
It's kind of throws me for a loop. I can't see any reason why the feature creation would fail.