SolidWorks Lofted Bend Formed vs Bent — Why You Cannot Choose and How to Fix It
The Lofted Bend PropertyManager has a Manufacturing Method dropdown with two options: Bent and Formed. When the dropdown shows only Formed — or you select Bent and get a flat pattern with no bend lines — the root cause is almost always one of three things: sketch planes that aren’t parallel, profile geometry that has sharp corners, or connector points placed on the wrong part of the sketch entities. None of these are obvious from the error message, and the official documentation buries the parallel-plane requirement. Here’s what’s actually going on. ...