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    Creating centerlines on swept feature in drawing

    Thanks naresh843, I tried this on a sweep along guide and it works fine as you can pick on the edge. Using the swept feature which I need to use in order to control the orientation of the square section it does not appear to work. I tried Hudsons suggestion with a constructed point and that...
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    Creating centerlines on swept feature in drawing

    Similar but in the other plane, as per the attached.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0729510f-ae94-47e6-a09e-35781b1157d3&file=centre_lines.bmp
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    Creating centerlines on swept feature in drawing

    I am trying to detail a spring made from a square section and using the 'swept'feature along a helix. When it comes to producing the detail drawing of the component I cannot get a center point to dimension to any of the other geometry to. Is there some way of getting a reference in the centre of...

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