How do you add a radius curve to a bent wire?
Metro
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Hi there,
I have apart of profiled wire with two 90 deg bends. On the top profile I did a simple sweep that runs from down the y-axis makes a 90deg turn to the left than another turn left to continue down the y-axis I would like the wire to also have a curved radius of 300- 400mm (12-16") the radius curve running along the y-axis and rising up the z-axis of the right plane. Anyone know how to achieve this?
Here is a link to the part if that helps
Thank you for any advice
-Metro
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Here you go. You were on the right path with that second sketch on a perpendicular plane (Sketch3). You just need to make that radius match up with the original path (Sketch2). Then you create a Projected curve with those two sketches as the input. The result is the same as if you extruded a surface from each sketch and then extracted the resulting intersection as a curve. Now you can use Projected curve 1 as your new sweep path.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e15385b07e1a8fbb7d78029d/w/8016b650b2bb9acf81180b30/e/78cbe5c6cd1e3fac9fb756cc
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Here you go. You were on the right path with that second sketch on a perpendicular plane (Sketch3). You just need to make that radius match up with the original path (Sketch2). Then you create a Projected curve with those two sketches as the input. The result is the same as if you extruded a surface from each sketch and then extracted the resulting intersection as a curve. Now you can use Projected curve 1 as your new sweep path.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e15385b07e1a8fbb7d78029d/w/8016b650b2bb9acf81180b30/e/78cbe5c6cd1e3fac9fb756cc
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Aaaaha! Thank you Mahir...I thought it was the Projected curve but I couldn't seem to crack it. Thank you very much!
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