Written by by Jeremy Singley, Jeremy Singley Industrial Design
Presented at SolidWorks World 2011.
Jeremy provides an outstanding discussion on how splines can make for better engineering. Fan blades, Venturi tubes, hoppers, optics, sheet metal, streamlining, ergonomics, springs, load-bearing spans, wire paths, cams, and aerodynamics. All the spline tools are demonstrated, with tips on the trickier ones.
This is best watched as a video, as the slides mostly provide the background for his discussions.
Watch the video from the SolidWorks proceedings site here: Explaining Splines Video
Download the accompanying slides: Explaining Splines
can not watch this video
Ytzhack,
I just tried, and I was able to watch the video. When you click on the link on this page, does a photo of Jeremy appear with a blue link “Watch Video” below it? If it does, and you clicked on it, does the video player load? If it does, then you probably just need to be patient. The video player SolidWorks used can sometimes load quite slow.
Hi Charles, the photo and the blue writing come up but after clicking watch video nothing happens.
Mark,
It still works for me. Which browser and version number are you using?
Version 9 of IE
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nice tuts, but a little question for a spline is how I can dimension a spline on a drawing mode?
If you require precise dimensions, say for machining without providing a CAD model, and just a paper drawing, then splines will not work.
When I need to make envelope dimensions, I put an extra sketch point on the drawing, and make it coincident with the edge. Then I can dimension to that point.
HI,
I tried but can’t watch the video
Click on “watch video” and wait and wait and see nothing
Thx
Chris,
Sometimes during SolidWorks World the videos online are not available as they switch over to the new current year. I just checked now (Jan 28th), and it worked for me. It is also slow for some people, so maybe you just need to be more patient.