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Hallo gid team,

Appreciate to be advised how to set up correctly the "Copy Window, Transformation: Sweep"

in order to get an extruded volume similar to the included example (forget the additional cuts), by sweeping the surface along the line as the defined path.

Thank you.

Javier Jimenez
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Hello Javier,

The current sweep tool has limited to select only a single path curve, you must join your multiple path lines: use collapse points, or create a polyline

Note: your model has some duplicated points, use also collapse to remove duplicateds.

Then you need to orient the path curve in the appropiate extrusion sense: use draw normals, and swap this normal if not agree with the desired sweep.

Then can use the sweep window: select surfaces as source, the path line, and extrude volumes. And select the source surface/s.
(when you select surfaces, the path line tangent is drawn to visualy check if it agree with the desired sweep)

Regards

Enrique Escolano

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From: Javier Jimenez
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:45 AM
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Hallo gid team,

Appreciate to be advised how to set up correctly the "Copy Window, Transformation: Sweep"

in order to get an extruded volume similar to the included example (forget the additional cuts), by sweeping the surface along the line as the defined path.

Thank you.

Javier Jimenez
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