Sweep

[Poul M A]

I have a problem with the Sweep function. If the path has square corners no problems. But If the path got fillets (nice big ones) it claim a problem of "coincident faces".
Did I use the wrong approach ? To get a cirtain profile along the edge.

Best Regards
Poul M Andersen

[BurrMan]

Your profile is too long to sweep around that tight radius without folding over itself..... You can shorten the profile before the sweep, to fit the corner radius, or try to fillet the miters after doing the sweep on the hard edge path.

[Poul M A]

Thank you Burrman
It works, fillet radius of 22mm and a profile lenght of 18mm.
But the corners are funny.
What are miters? can't find it with google translate (I am Danish).

Best Regards
Poul M Andersen

[BurrMan]

Hi Poul,
"Miters" is just a term for crafting the "square corners" like in your picture:



Like a picture frame maker would say "Miter the corners". So the suggestion was to just make the nice square frame you had already made, then use some type of blend to get the radius you wanted from the curved/radiused sweep path.


It's hard to tell what happened with your fillet example from just the screengrab.
I dont have solidedge to help with a file, but if you can post the curves as an IGES file, I could look at the options with another package and try to give some help with a method.