Swept Surface

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Generate surface features by moving a scanned profile along a path.

Instructions for Use

Click to enter the Scan Surface command, whose interface is shown in the following figure.

The functions of each control are as follows:

1. Scanning outline: can be edges, sketches, sketch lines, faces, etc. It can be open or closed loop, but it only supports selecting a set of scanned Outlines.

2. Scan path: Can be a curve, edge, sketch line, and so on, intersecting the contour plane but not in the same plane. It can be open-loop or closed-loop.

3. Contour Direction: Keeps the normal and changes with the path.

Note：

• Changes with the path: the section is always at the same Angle relative to the path;
• Keep normal: The cross-section is parallel to the starting section at the moment and has nothing to do with the path tangent vector.

4. Scan direction: direction 1, bi-directional, direction 2. When the scan profile is in the middle of the path (not the starting position), you can select a bidirectional scan.

5. Circular Outline: When selected, the default circular outline (which defines the radius of the circle) scans along the selected path, and the contour direction changes with the path by default.

Note：

Scan contours, paths, and resulting surfaces cannot be self-intersecting.

Example 1： The contour is non-circular, the contour direction is variable with the path, and the scanning direction is bidirectional, as shown in the following figure.

Example 2： The contour is non-circular, the contour direction is keep normal, and the scanning direction is bidirectional, as shown in the following figure.

Example 3： Select the Circular Outline command, as shown in the following image.

Click the OK button to complete the operation.