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I found the following contour on the internet and wanted to remodel it. But I can't get far with the Loft feature, or I can only connect one contour at a time on a layer. How do I get it to work as shown in the picture?

Evan_Reese said:

My first thought was to use the Sculpt Face custom feature, but I don't think you'll get enough control. You may want to instead create a bunch of guide geometry and use the Fill feature (set the guides to "sampled"). I used sketch geometry to place where the flats are for the "feet", and I used my 3D Points custom feature to control the shape in between those. Here's an example of that. If neither of those gives you all of the control you want it'll have to be modeled in patches most likely.

You are the man! Thank you! I´ve never used the Fill Feature.

@MichaelPascoe Thanks, but I meant the difference between the filled purple radius, and the non-filled lines

Is there a simple way to define the surface distance between two bending pockets if the angle is not 90°? In the following pictures, the distance between the two marked surfaces should be exactly 10.2 mm. At the moment, I am slowly adjusting the length of flange 1 until the surface distance is exactly right. This can go down to the fifth decimal place....
Of course I could build the sheet metal model differently from the beginning, but I already have some features planned in this part and no time to do it again. It would be ideal to be able to say afterwards what the distance between the two faces should be, so that the flange length calculates itself for angles above and below 90°.

Yeah I know I can use this, but I don't want to rebuild the part

glen_dewsbury said:

use a material offset for you sketch with extrude sheet meta.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fd8d60e9de614fef424c4257/w/f74808f6a3a75c2ab5c832d6/e/ca3ea29c67e222cf9d89f47a