Category Archives: Spline Tools

6 SolidWorks Spline Tips to Control Curvature, by Josh Mings

By admin | October 14, 2009

“Nonetheless, you love Splines, or at the very least have a mild curiosity about them. A curiosity that has led you here. We can’t keep you from upsetting your co-workers with curviness, but we can show you how to control the curves and give you a little better understanding of how these sucka’s work.” …
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Simple solutions, by Gabi Jack

By admin | July 22, 2009

A reader had a problem trying to create something like a spring. I know, you can make that easily with a helix and/or a sweep, right? Yes, but the tricky part was that he needed the ends of the spring to bend towards the axis of the spring. … He sent me a picture (that I [...]

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Surface modeling from scanned data, by Matt Lombard

By admin | April 27, 2009

“This is a project Jeff Mirisola sent to me from a company called Status Racing. They have an existing car seat, but didn’t have CAD data for the mold, so they wanted a parametric model. The process was interesting, so I thought I’d pass it along.” …
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