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Question About Swept Protrusions

Question About Swept Protrusions

Question About Swept Protrusions

(OP)
I am working on a spiral staircase and am modelling the stair case stringers (flat side that the edge of the steps attaches to). I created a sketch of my radius and the end profiles and set them at their proper locations. When I sweep the protrusion it works fine except that the sweep intersects the sketches at perpendicular instead of at the angle between the two sketches. It gives the effect that the stringer flairs out to flat on the bottom and curves up on the top. How do I suppress this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin

RE: Question About Swept Protrusions

Weimann, did you ever find a solution?  I have had a similar problem and was unable to get it to work either.  I posted my question here as well.  Usually I have received a response within a day or two.  Apparently we have stumped everyone with this.  We have a SolidEdge training class for our newer employees at the end of this month.  I will definitely ask the trainer about this.  I will forward the information I receive.

You can't idiotproof against a sufficiently talented idiot

RE: Question About Swept Protrusions

(OP)
I did figure out how to address this issue. The swept protrusion must intersect the sketch plane at 90 degrees. So I had to rotate the sketch planes (really created them on the complimentary angle) on perpendicular to the curve I was generating. Its not a very easy task to do this because its a lot to keep up with in your head while your figuring out what the complimentary angle is, where it is located and in my case, where the sketch belongs in two axes at the proper angle.

Please forward the info from your trainer. I've been basically learning SE on my own. I have experience with Mechanical Desktop so it has not been impossible, but some of the functions (namely 3D Patterns, etc.) just do not make much sense and the tutorials don't address these very well.

RE: Question About Swept Protrusions

"...but some of the functions ... just do not make much sense and the tutorials don't address these very well."

Any chance of this idea getting back to the developers? Largely I've found S-E to be highly capable, and entirely adequate for MUCH of my work, but ...

I'm also interested in the question of this thread.

Good luck guys and please post here with any results!

C. Fee

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