Revolved Loft?
Revolved Loft?
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Is it possible to do a revolved loft? Trying to draw a satelite dish with parabolic contours and would like to do a revolve loft to the contours.
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RE: Revolved Loft?
Select the profiles to loft in the graphics area for Profiles .
Under Centerline Parameters:
Select the centerline sketch in the graphics area for Centerline
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RE: Revolved Loft?
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
o
_`\(,_
(_)/ (_)
"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea" Bernard-Paul Heroux
RE: Revolved Loft?
RE: Revolved Loft?
Can you share a picture with us so we better understand what you are trying to do?
Have you tried revolving each contour 180° and joining them as one solid body? Or maybe revolve each contour 180° and then loft between the two profiles to connect the two solid bodies into one. I might be unclear of what you are trying to achieve. Without a picture I am guessing.
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Jon
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RE: Revolved Loft?
Perhaps if you post an image (FAQ559-1100) we can offer the correct advice.
Making the best use of this Forum. FAQ559-716
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RE: Revolved Loft?
RE: Revolved Loft?
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You say you are creating a parabolic dish, but using 2 parabolas. To create a true parabolic dish, all you would need to do is create ONE parabola and revolve it around its axis.
In my example, I have used to parabolas as you described and used an eliptical guide curve.
RE: Revolved Loft?
RE: Revolved Loft?
RE: Revolved Loft?
What I did was create the two parabolas on perpendicular planes.
Create the eliptical guide curve that intersects the parabolas.
Create a Loft with the two parabolas, selecting the elipse as a guide curve.
This will give you 1/4 of your dish.
Now use the mirror bodies command to create the other 3 quadrants.
RE: Revolved Loft?
That did it! Thanks a ton!
RE: Revolved Loft?
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