Do people really design entire car bodies with SolidWorks?
No (and even SolidWorks admits to that). However, the company did beef up the software’s surfacing capabilities. Users can interactively drag, manipulate, and otherwise modify curves while defining loft. Plus, loft now has a new default start/end condition. Previous versions of SolidWorks only applied zero curvature to the start/end conditions of new lofts. Moreover, users can now pick a single contour or join multiple contours in a single 3D sketch for loft features (as well as for sweep and fill features). How does SolidWorks resolve sketches? First of all, remember that SolidWorks is a sketch-based modeler. Users start with a sketch, and then extrude it, loft it, and so on. Along the way, the user can add design intent into those sketches, such as dimensions, as well as perpendicular relationships and parallel relationships. It’s possible to over-define a sketch, creating design conflicts. SolidWorks will identify those conflicts, point out where too many dimensions or too many rela
No (and even SolidWorks admits to that). However, the company did beef up the software’s surfacing capabilities. Users can interactively drag, manipulate, and otherwise modify curves while defining loft. Plus, loft now has a new default start/end condition. Previous versions of SolidWorks only applied zero curvature to the start/end conditions of new lofts. Moreover, users can now pick a single contour or join multiple contours in a single 3D sketch for loft features (as well as for sweep and fill features).
