Solids help

[Surface]

I need some help modeling something that looks like the spires in this picture.

 

I thought it could be done as a swept/drafted solid, but there is not an option to draft while sweeping. Then I thought, perhaps I can draft a face, which gave some bad results.

 

Any ideas?

[neil qwerty]

You could make some swept surfaces and trim a solid block to get what you need.

[andrewgore]

Create your square or whatever the shape at the bottom (top plane z0)

create your arcshapecontour whatever that would be the main defining contour.(front plane z0)

create your final shape at the top of your contour (top plane Zn)

Make sure that where your along feature startsstops is the same on both topbottom squares otherwise you get screwy results.

 

Possibly also design from front view, create your shape, extrude the distance and add draft to the sides after that? Might be easier in solidworks. lol

 

hope that helps a little bit

 

Andrew

 

Edit....the first description up there, you would create a surface and then turn it into a solid. I'll see what I can do as far as just using solids.

[andrewgore]

It's a shame you can't do a lofted solidsurface with a guide curve. That would do the trick right there.

 

Andrew

[iowajim62]

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Edit....the first description up there, you would create a surface and then turn it into a solid. I'll see what I can do as far as just using solids.

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or create a solid block and use boolean remove with the surfaces, iotw remove the surfaces from the solid block and you'll get the spire result

[Surface]

Thank you for your help. As suggested, I'm making it from surfaces and healing them into a solid.

It just seems like there should be a better way.