How to Draft Curved Surfaces in Solidworks

Today we look at a technique for creating curved surfaces, with adequate draft angle, in SolidWorks.
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[@Eric-DMTI]

Nice solution!

[@Auday365]

Great tips in part making for plastic injection molding, thank you.

[@forgeproductdevelopment]

Thank you! Design for injection molding is definitely something I have been trying to improve at.

[@WD1271]

I am learning a lot from you, I like your style

[@forgeproductdevelopment]

Thank you so much! Is there anything specific you would like to learn? I would be happy to do a video on it.

[@rahuldumu8456]

Can you make videos over plastic parts

[@mariocastro5866]

great method, I really liked your final result in the 2nd part, very nice 👌

[@forgeproductdevelopment]

Thank you! That second part is really the way I would recommend if you were doing some form of consumer product or something that required a higher level of aesthetic value. What do you do with Solidworks?

[@mariocastro5866]

@@forgeproductdevelopment designing cleaning products and their molds!

[@ubik19761]

I know it's a preference thing, but why didn't you use a ruled surface for the parting line draft tangency? Just curious since either way works.

[@forgeproductdevelopment]

Do you mean in the first part of the video, where I taper the surface and use it to cut away the model? Either way would work. I think I favored the surfacing tools this time as that is what was used in the second half of the video. It would be interesting to test and see which is more stable, faster to create and has faster rebuild times.

[@4n2earth22]

Crack! .....another one over the fence.

[@forgeproductdevelopment]

You have clearly never seen me try to bat lol