Sweep with a non-planar path
Sweep with a non-planar path
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Hi everyone
I have a profile which I want to sweep along a curve that is not planar. Is it possible to do this?
Thanks
I have a profile which I want to sweep along a curve that is not planar. Is it possible to do this?
Thanks






RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
You can also create additional guide curves if necessary to stretch your profile geometry along the way, or to better define twist, etc. along the path.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
If you post pictures of what you're doing, it could help in debugging your sweep. Make sure your profile doesn't collide with itself while traversing the path (taking too tight a turn in the path) or you'll have more logical problems and the sweep won't form.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
FAQ559-1100 or FAQ559-1177
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
This is the image:
http://209.250.130.101/downloads/FsxInfo/mybox.jpg
The problem is:
The sweep is following a 3D sketch. The profile goes around the box/base along the 3D sketch and joins the starting point. Now if you look at the top straight edge, you will see 2 faces of the sweep which are separated by a vertical line. That means when sweep comes around the upper left fillet, it doesn't align with the starting face, so there is a gap between 2 faces.
I am not sure how better to explain this, but hope you understand.
Thanks to all the readers.
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
What I ended up doing was sweeping half of it, then mirroring. Think I swept it around a little more than half way and used the mid plane to trim it back. Then the mirror worked. Of course you'll have to uncheck "Merge" to do this and then use "Combine" to boolean/add it back to the main body.
Also, you may try a loft with guide curves instead. You may have to extract a second sketch on top of the other one to end the loft or perhaps you can use "Contour Select" to select the one sketch twice.
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP1.0 on WinXP SP2
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Sweep with a non-planar path
The outcome will be for-shortened dimensions in your profile. If this is a problem you can use a combinations of lofts and sweeps to get around the for-shortning. No magic button. brep.