

If a pathway of extruding has branching, the pathway cannot be extruded one sweep operation. You can sweep while changing the cross-sectional shape (It is usualy called "Sweep Blend") by using multiple cross-sectional shapes. In following figure, a regular pentagon has been extruded along with a spiral that has been created with Creating primitives in Part workbench. Click Done to finish selecting.Īfter selecting the pathway, check Create solid at bottom left of the dialog and click OK on Sweep dialog to create a solid by sweeping.Īny cross-sectional shape can be extruded along the curve with this sweep method. If you want to select more than one line, select lines with pressing Ctrl key. Then click Sweep Path and select a pathway of extruding in 3D View.

Īt first, select a cross-sectional shape (Sketch001) and click ⇨ to set the cross-sectional shape as sweep-target. After that, click Close at Tasks tab in Combo View to exit sketch editing mode.įollowing figure shows the two sketches that has been created above steps. Match the center of the circle to the sketch plane origin with point-on-point constraint. You can set positions in rough because these will be adjusts in the restraint operation. Creates sketch planeĬreate a circle as shown in following figure.

Select the document in Tree View and create new sketch plane on YZ-plane. Next we create cross-sectional shape to be extruded. After that, click Close at Tasks tab in Combo View to exit sketch editing mode. 261 Solid modeling techniques advantages, 201202 construct menu (see Construction tools) mini-shelf creation extrude tool, 244 merge function. Match the endpoints of the sketch to the sketch plane origin with point-on-point constraint. And exit polyline mode with mouse right click. In polyline mode, you can draw arc with keybord M key. Select polyline and draw sketch as follow. This curve is used as pathway of extruding.Ĭreate new sketch plane on XY-plane. Following shapes can be created by this method.įirst we create a curve.
#Freecad extrude face of solid how to#
In this example, we explain how to create a solid by extruding a cross-sectional shape along the curve.
