Help needed, curved blade

[Ethan8950]

Ok I am 17, a senior in high school, and am interning at a national lab. I am currently modeling a claw-like cutter and have modeled everything but the claws themselves. If you would like to help me, you can email me at [email protected] and i can send you pictures of the claw (for some reason i cannot upload them ). I'm not asking anyone to do this for me, just some advice on how to start. thanks

these may not work but here are some images

oh and the thickness is about 1.25 in.


Edited by: Ethan8950

 

[Jacoolo]

ok, I am not a user of SW(maybe so far

), and I just noticed this thread contained phrase intresting to me - curved blade

I think the essence here is the right approach, same in all software.

So, IMHO the blade itself(pics as a base) is a simple extrude.

The cut on the blade could be done within few ways:

*simple cut with an arc profile + draft(take a look on this surfaces looks like it is drafted)

*sweep/loft with variable section - in this particular example the angle of cut is changed along trajectory

*Boundary blend