Howdy all and thanks for all replies.
I'm pretty new to Solidworks and am finding it a lot more complicated than a competing product...anyway, i'm trying to do a sketch that will be the path for a sweep. Basically, if you took your regular old 20" piece of copper wire and crumpled it up in a ball, that is basically what I'm trying to draw. It doesn't actually have that many curves and arcs, but a few on many planes, so I'm just not sure how to go about this...
I've drawn several planes and sketched the flat parts on them. Different sketches, I assume obviously. Where they intersect, the program won't fillet to any size.
Can someone just throw out a few keywords of things I can research and play with in the tutorials / help stuff? Someone here at work suggested that I draw major flat areas on planes, then use "insert / curve". I'm looking into that now...any other strategies out there? All suggestions will help, as I am new and need to learn all of what anyone has to say.
Thanks!
Mickey
I'm pretty new to Solidworks and am finding it a lot more complicated than a competing product...anyway, i'm trying to do a sketch that will be the path for a sweep. Basically, if you took your regular old 20" piece of copper wire and crumpled it up in a ball, that is basically what I'm trying to draw. It doesn't actually have that many curves and arcs, but a few on many planes, so I'm just not sure how to go about this...
I've drawn several planes and sketched the flat parts on them. Different sketches, I assume obviously. Where they intersect, the program won't fillet to any size.
Can someone just throw out a few keywords of things I can research and play with in the tutorials / help stuff? Someone here at work suggested that I draw major flat areas on planes, then use "insert / curve". I'm looking into that now...any other strategies out there? All suggestions will help, as I am new and need to learn all of what anyone has to say.
Thanks!
Mickey