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Create a sweep feature

Create a sweep feature - Inventor Tutorial

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Create a sweep feature

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- [Narrator] We're now ready to look at the sweep feature. In order to create a sweep, we need two things, we need a profile that's going to be swept and we need a path that it's going to be swept along. To begin we need a blank part file which I have open on the screen. I'm going to right-click and select New Sketch, and I'm going to select the XY plane to sketch on. And what we're going to do here is we're going to create a path that we can sweep a profile along. I'm going to start by right-clicking and selecting Create Line. Hover over the center of the sketch and left-click to start the line and I'm going to drag upward to about point 75 inches, it doesn't have to be exact, and I'm going to left-click. Now I could continue creating lines just by left-clicking anywhere but I'm going to show you a trick. I want to actually create an arc here. If you hover your line back to the end point on the previous line you'll notice a small gray dot up here. When you see that, if you left-click…

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