I can’t figure out how to sweep or loft a taper around a 180⁰ curve.
I draw the path on an axis, and then draw my beginning and ending shape on the axis perpendicular to the path, but I keep getting the error that the start and end path are on a different axis and can’t be completed, or that the loft failed because the resulting body won’t be valid.
Heres a photo of what I’m trying to do:
Shapr falls flat on it’s face sometimes. I figured wrongly that scaling the end would have, you know, scaled the length of the body. If you could combine line segments into a single spline… or is this a limitation of Parasolid?
I’ve had less success on other similar shapes with splines, because it will fail to generate if the shape being swept collides with itself along the path.
Most of my work in shapr3d is making dies for bending tubes, and it can be very frustrating to figure out how to work around the errors that it gives me when I’m sweeping the path.
The workaround is to sweep the first straight section, scale the end, select that end and sweep and scale, rinse and repeat for each section? I’ll try it. But you would have to scale by percentages if the segments aren’t the same length? I’ll try it in a bit.
AI is gonna make all this obsolete.
