Hello everyone, I have a desire to make some designs for sake of practice that are abstract in nature. For some of them I want to sweep along a Bézier curve but I would like the sweep path to move in all three axis (axises?). When I make a curve and select a point to move with the move tool, all th…

No, 3D splines have been requested but no word on implementation. Last I checked they’re not on the radar of the team or a high priority. Although I would also like to have them implemented.

You can connect several splines in different sketches in all 3 dimensions and then sweep along this path.

@Xdrakosha Will they connect as a single sweep? I haven’t tried since the update but prior it would only go to the end of one sketch on a singular plane. (Forum removed my quote)

[image] APDesignMachine: Will they connect as a single sweep? I haven’t tried since the update but prior it would only go to the end of one sketch on a singular plane. I hope video above already gave you an answer :slight_smile:

[image] Xdrakosha: I hope video above already gave you an answer :slight_smile: Thank you kindly my friend, very helpful indeed. Still wish it was more open, ie drag nodes in 3d but this will suffice for now haha

Just to give you an alternative option. You can just ignore the sketches and sweep around solid bodies instead. I’ve found this a lot more efficient when modelling conduit and pipes.

This is a very robust workflow if you can define your 3D curves like this, and will work very well with parametric changes.

It’s been done and posted in the forum. Search tool. How to model a pair of handlebars? - #4 by Oregonerd

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How can I made Bézier curves that are not flat?

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Here’s another one.

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How can I made Bézier curves that are not flat?

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