# Cutting a groove along a path

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 2, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425 "2024-12-02T14:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brekelefuw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Brekelefuw](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Brekelefuw)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/1 "2024-12-02T14:08:00Z")

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I am trying to draw a block with a radiused groove around the outside.

I am coming from Fusion360. In that, I would draw the path of the groove, draw/extrude a block around it and then sweep the path to cut the shape out of the block.

I’m having no luck doing this is shapr3d.

Below is how the block looks in fusion, and the path that I drew, and then the path I drew in shapr3d .

[[Album] Sweeping a groove ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/1/4/1478417ef13b17c4fde09f10f20c69ff2b90552e.jpeg "Sweeping a groove") ](https://imgur.com/a/mLRhgDA)

I’ve attached a link since new users here can only post 1 photo.

If I cant sweep/cut, how would you go about modeling this object? These are dies I print to bend tubing, so the radii of the curves needs to be exact.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/2 "2024-12-02T15:05:55Z")

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Select the top edge of the body. Add plane “at point on the end of a curve”. Draw your cut on the plane and sweep it. Should work.

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**Author:** ![Brekelefuw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Brekelefuw](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Brekelefuw)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/3 "2024-12-02T15:34:57Z")

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I’m not sure I follow.

I select the top edge of the body and create the plane. It makes it perpendicular to the edge that I selected. I drew a new path on that plane and also a new circle sketch on the face of the block.  
Then I used sweep, selected the circle profile and clicked next and then the path, and there is no option to cut the sweep. It only makes a new body.

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/4 "2024-12-02T15:41:43Z")

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The body’s edge is your path. Draw the cut shape on the perpendicular plane.

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/5 "2024-12-02T16:17:42Z")

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**Author:** ![Brekelefuw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Brekelefuw](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Brekelefuw)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/6 "2024-12-02T16:19:25Z")

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Ok I figured it out.

I draw the path, then on a perpendicular plane draw the channel shape as well as a bit of the what will become the body. Then I sweep the channel/body and extrude the inside of the sketched curve to fill out the middle.

 ![17331561725303111784945158805324](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/9/b/9b6aae07d8b59a1b75f8bc566209789dd8506969.jpeg)

It’s funny, sweep cutting in fusion is simple, but drawing the curve is a hassle. Shapr3d drawing the curve is dead simple but sweep cutting is a hassle.

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/7 "2024-12-02T16:25:30Z")

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/cutting-a-groove-along-a-path/35425/8 "2024-12-02T19:21:54Z")

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That’s one way. But it was more work. Look at Mike’s vid