I have tried dozens of ideas and researched SWX help and Youtube and cannot find an answer to what seems to me should be relatively simple considering the complex geometry that can be modeled with Solidworks.
Ideally, I would love to model this part as flat in sheet metal and then bend it around the radius, but the little bit of research I've done, it is perhaps over my head (with no SWX sheet metal experience) or maybe even not impossible. But even if this isn't possible, I need to somehow achieve an accurate representation of my part and assembly.
I'm attaching an assembly which so far has 2 parts. It seems far more complex than it should have to be, but I'd be okay with it if it produced the results I'm looking for, but no luck at all. My profile is a constant thickness and width, but it needs to change elevation and curve, and while viewing normal to the top plane in the assembly, the profile should be completely vertical, so that I would see no hidden edges in that view and exactly 5/16" of the thickness is on either side of the Layout sketch in my plan view..
I started with attempting a swept feature, but that came up with the same result, and caused more problems for my end cuts. Any hints or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Apparently this is a graphics issue. I had placed the part in a drawing to check it when I tried the sweep feature, and thought I had also done so with the lofted feature, but after some further tinkering, I see the loft feature as modeled does reflect the correct profile when viewed in a drawing.
If anyone has any help regarding accomplishing this with sheet metal, though, that would still be of great help.
Thanks!