Curved Lamp Shade in solidworks?
Curved Lamp Shade in solidworks?
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I have been trying to create the attached, curved lampshade in solidworks. Each change in direction will be its own individual piece in reality - i just can't get the layout down. Nothing seems to handle running the loft and the curve at the same time.
Thanks for looking!
Thanks for looking!






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I can't think of how to get a sweep to work.
Thanks a ton for the response.
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Chris
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I was able to get it to work as a whole using the loft command by creating the I/D and O/D hexadecagon for the top and bottom with 4 spline curves as supports.
My problem was every time i tried to create an individual leaf, there ended up being a diamond shaped hole in between the adjacent plane, or piece.
Still working out the kinks. Thanks Again!!!
RE: Curved Lamp Shade in solidworks?
RE: Curved Lamp Shade in solidworks?
The key trick is using a Derived sketch to add the identical guide curve profile to a plane located at a 360/12° offset.
I then used a boundary surface and a cheap body copy to make the whole shape. You might want to do a better job and do a full set of 12 guide curves and do a proper loft/shell.
Up to you.
Good luck!
-Kevin
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kgwhipp - i am interested in your approach, but i don't have SW11 (of all the things solidworks can do).
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