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Having issues with Sweep, sometimes it works how I think, but many times it doesn't.
brian_wagener
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I have been wrestling with Sweep for a bit, whereas when I sweep it either comes out deformed, or can't regenerate, and sometimes it works like I expect, but I can't figure out a difference. See the below drawing, I made a few sketches, with just a single line and a curve, and when I sweep the circle, some of the sketches come up good, and some don't but they seem the same to me. Any thoughts?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/859cbb06b0b4cd322eaf2715/w/a5f6b862e922bdf63627a8d2/e/85979447c038129715dcffea
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The sweep profile location relative to the path matters!
Make sure the centerpoint of the circle has a "pierce" constraint with the path you want to sweep along and you should get what you expect…
Alternatively if you need to sweep a specific profile along random paths, you can try the "pattern and sweep" FS:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/76442daf92ce43df74883ec6/v/6cadb9686041c3ecd01e6833/e/cdac35e0ee54c70d46280df1
Thanks, that helped.