Sweep or revolute a solid part

victor_ragusila

I am trying to design a humanoid robot. Part of it involves the end stops and shells, requiring me to visualize the range of motion of shoulders or hips. 

I would love if I can take a solid part (like the thigh shell) and revolute it around an axis (like the hip pitch axis). This would create a volume that represents the volume needed by the shell. 

Is it possible to take a solid part and sweep it across a path, or revolute it? Anyone have any idea how to go about it?

cheers

Victor Ragusila

NeilCooke

It is not possible to sweep a solid, but if you are trying to design the end stops, you can do this using in-context. A video explaining how to do it can be found here: https://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/onshape-just-took-the-lead-on-top-down-design

john_mcclary

Could you:

create your path with a curve
Make a silhouette (shadow) normal to each end point of the curve
loft the silhouettes ?