Part Sweep

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Part_Sweep

Menu location
Part -> Sweep...
Workbenches
Part
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
Part_Loft

Overview

The FreeCAD Part Sweep tool (Part Workbench), is used to create a face, shell or a solid shape from two or more profiles, projected along a path.

The Part Sweep tool is similar to Part_Loft with the addition of a path to define the projection between profiles.

The profiles can be a point (vertex), line (Edge), wire or face. Edges and wires may be either open or closed. There are various limitations and complications, see below, however the profiles may come from the Part Workbench primitives, Draft Workbench features and a Sketch.

The Sweep has two parameters, "Solid" and "Frenet" each with a value of either "true" or "false" as well as "Transition" parameter which describes the transition style of the Sweep at a joint in the path, if the path is a wire and therefore does not define the corner transition.

If "Solid" is "true" FreeCAD creates a solid if the profiles are of closed geometry, if "false" FreeCAD creates a face or (if more than one face) a shell for either open or closed profiles.

If "Frenet" is "true" the orientation of the profile will be consistent to the local orientation of the path, along a helical path.

FreeCAD - Version

0.13

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