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Sweep a profile along a curved path

Sweep a profile along a curved path - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Sweep a profile along a curved path

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- [Instructor] Let's turn our attention to modeling this curve element here within the bicycle frame. I'm going to zoom in down here and orbit, just navigate so I get a view of this area right here. Now I'm going to reset the user coordinate system by typing ucs Enter Enter to take the default world option. Then I'll draw a line from a nearest point along the edge so I'll hold down the Shift key and right click and choose Nearest, and select some arbitrary point along this edge and draw the line, I'll turn off ortho. I'd like to draw that penpendicular to the opposite edge like this. This will establish a line that we can use to represent the cross-section of this tube. I'll type ucs Enter, use the object option, and click on this object right here. Now if I click on that object on the left side, the red axis is parallel to the red line, and the green axis goes up in this direction. If however, I did that differently, and used the object option and clicked on this side of the line…

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