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Copying A Swept Composite Curve

Copying A Swept Composite Curve

Copying A Swept Composite Curve

(OP)
Good after noon. I have a link of jack chain, which was made by sweeping a wire diameter on a composite curve. It kind of looks like a figure-8. I would love to create 10 more of these links, but nothing is working right for me and I keep getting nothing. I just need to be able to move these links around. Thanks very much for any help on this one.

RE: Copying A Swept Composite Curve

Have you tried making an assembly ?

If you are looking to pattern the part... You might try toggling geometry pattern on and off to see if the pattern propagates correctly.

RE: Copying A Swept Composite Curve

Why copy the curve when you can copy the body?

RE: Copying A Swept Composite Curve

(OP)
I created it as an assembly now it is working alright. thanks.

RE: Copying A Swept Composite Curve

If you sweep a line along your comp curve you can pattern or mirror the surface body and extract the edge off the body it's the only way a curve or sketch can be patterned with SolidWorks.

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RE: Copying A Swept Composite Curve

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Thanks for the response and yes I did try that, but it kept erroring some about geometry error that it could not figure out. That is why I did it as an assembly.

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