surface modeling

[SolidCreative]

I would like to show a sheet of material flowing through a series of rollers in this machine i have. The sheet must twist at certain points, where some rollers have an angle on them. Im just trying to wrap my head around which functions i would need to complete this task. I belive it would be a 3d sweep, but be able to twist at certain points. Any suggestions would be helpful. I attached a coulpe reference picture to help explain.

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=88633334-c149-4253-88b9-10b7de615eeb&file=1.JPG

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=e017058d-9a8e-408d-ade2-3d1f6da2c433&file=2.JPG

Thanks!!
Matthew

 

[btrueblood]

A loft in the twist areas might work also.

 

[SolidCreative]

The loft function totally worked in this situation. I was able to make the material flowing through the machine, and it resembled exactly what was going on.

thanks

 

[btrueblood]

You are quite welcome.