Coming from Catia, I run into a brick wall every now and then with Solidworks. Some things that are dead simple in Catia (importing airfoil data and doing all kind of stuff with it, 3d ruled surfaces) seem pretty much impossible in SW. How do you guys work around those issues?
At the moment I'm trying to rebuild a polyhedral wing. Taking 3D coördinates, a 3D sketch and a curve is trivial. Scaling the thing, not so much. Apparantly, it's impossible to scale a 3D sketch. So how do you guys build up wing sections? Somehow import the coördinates in a 2D sketch (which can be scaled)? Manually changing the whole set of airfoil coördinates?
Here is the file etc:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/br90ga5xyn1y109/AADQIEvhghon2Jd83JqD6ZaOa
At the moment I'm trying to rebuild a polyhedral wing. Taking 3D coördinates, a 3D sketch and a curve is trivial. Scaling the thing, not so much. Apparantly, it's impossible to scale a 3D sketch. So how do you guys build up wing sections? Somehow import the coördinates in a 2D sketch (which can be scaled)? Manually changing the whole set of airfoil coördinates?
Here is the file etc:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/br90ga5xyn1y109/AADQIEvhghon2Jd83JqD6ZaOa
