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danlamb

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Aug 12, 2014
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I am try to produce a spring with a variational sweep I have used a helix curve and then in sketch using on path I have drawn the outside profile of my spring but when I try to use variational sweep
it says the path must be single connected section??? even thou I have sketch on path what am I doing wrong? I have attached a part file of this.

Thank you.

Regards Daniel Lamb
 
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