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help with a model using sweep
brett_sutton
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I'm an amateur, half way through building a deck and I need to change my hand rails.
I'm trying to create the hand rails using a spline and a sweep that needs to pass through three points (in the same plane).
The three points are attachment points on posts that the hand rail attaches to.
I have the sweep for the handrail working between the three attachment points.
My problem is that the attachment points are in the centre of the posts but I need the hand rail (created with the sweep) to extend to the edge of the posts (start and end posts).
The problem is that the 'extensions' aren't in the same plane as the three attachment points.
How do I get the sweep to pass through the attachment points and then extend to the outside of the (start and end) posts?
Here is the part studio - named 'steel'
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f3b03c15b5a38d98937576aa/v/bc565b072ca25e34c7013b42/e/05dec5ec995dd1c4173db46f
I'm trying to create the hand rails using a spline and a sweep that needs to pass through three points (in the same plane).
The three points are attachment points on posts that the hand rail attaches to.
I have the sweep for the handrail working between the three attachment points.
My problem is that the attachment points are in the centre of the posts but I need the hand rail (created with the sweep) to extend to the edge of the posts (start and end posts).
The problem is that the 'extensions' aren't in the same plane as the three attachment points.
How do I get the sweep to pass through the attachment points and then extend to the outside of the (start and end) posts?
Here is the part studio - named 'steel'
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f3b03c15b5a38d98937576aa/v/bc565b072ca25e34c7013b42/e/05dec5ec995dd1c4173db46f
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A few things:
I will go through the answer in detail later today. I need to look a few of those terms up