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1. WHY CANT I USE THE MEASURING FEATURE IN EDRAWINGS 2015 FULL
2. WHY CANT I USE THE MEASURING FEATURE IN EDRAWINGS 2015 FREE

Taking a look at a section cut from the top view, notice that the profile of the part is twisted in relation to Axis1. The profile and path sketches are shown, and this part was made with a rectangular profile swept around a 3D sketch:

WHY CANT I USE THE MEASURING FEATURE IN EDRAWINGS 2015 FREE

Here is a sweep that looks like a Mobius Strip (feel free to look this up if high school math was a while ago like it was for me). The second aspect I’m going to cover is using a guide curve to control the sweep. This is because the cut is parallel to the profile: If we take the same section cut as before, the section looks round.

WHY CANT I USE THE MEASURING FEATURE IN EDRAWINGS 2015 FULL

The diagonal section looks thinner instead of being a full round like before: If we edit the feature, we can change the orientation to “Keep normal constant”: Notice how profile looks like an ellipse, this is because the section cut is parallel to the same plane as the profile: Here is the part shown sectioned at a diagonal leg. The default is set to “Follow Path”, so let’s see what that looks like when we hit the green check and create the part: To illustrate this difference, here is a part with 2 sketches to create a simple piece of pipe with a circular profile and a bent path:Īfter going into the Swept Boss/Base feature (under the Features tab on the Command Manager) and choosing the profile and the path, expand the Options area to view the Orientation/twist type. This can come in handy if you have something like plastic tubing that’s profile can distort after you bend it. In contrast, the Keep normal constant makes the profile normal to itself.

This means if you look at a cross section normal to the path anywhere, the profile will be constant. To summarize, when the Follow Path option is used the profile will be normal to the path.

These are 2 of the Orientation/twist types under the Options pane in the Properties Manager when creating your sweep. The first thing I want to focus on is the difference between Follow Path and Keep normal constant. Since I’m sure you’ve mastered this, let’s move on to some more advanced sweep feature functions. I will be focusing on the swept boss/base feature, but this can also apply to a swept cut.

If you have been paying attention to my blogs (it’s okay if you haven’t), you’ll recall that I wrote an article on the basics of creating a sweep in SOLIDWORKS.