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Creating Sweep Features | 157
Your drawing should look like this.
NOTE Increase the value of ISOLINES for a more accurate display of the sweep.
Save your file.
Creating 3D Sweep Features
With Mechanical Desktop, you can also sweep profiles along a variety of 3D
paths. Use these paths to create a feature swept along
A helical path
A spiral path
A path defined by a 3D spline
A path created from filleted 3D polylines and lines
A path created from existing part edges
For more information about creating 3D paths, see chapter 6, Creating Para-
metric Sketches.
First, create a 3D helical sweep.
To create a 3D helical sweep
1 Make SWEEP2_1 visible.
2 Activate SWEEP2_1.
3 Make SWEEP1_1 invisible.
4 Zoom in to SWEEP2_1.