Can I performe a swept cut with solid bodies in SW?

Branko Stokuca

25 Jan, 2012 06:12 PM

tutorial

1. Step 1:

   First you create a part and sketch a path on it (shown in the picture)
   

   

2. Step 2:

   Than you create a plane where you will create a solid body that will be used as a swept cut tool.
   

   

3. Step 3:

   You must be careful when creating a solid body because the solid body must be placed partly inside the other body. Also, in order to make things work the swept cut tool can only be created as a revoled boss part. If you try to use any other method of creating the swept cut body the swept cut feature will fail. Also, when you revolve a profile of the swept cut body you must uncheck the” merge result”.
   

   

4. Step 4:

   Activate the swept cut tool and select “solid sweep”
   

   

5. Step 5:

   The feature manager is asking you to select the tool body and a path
   

   

6. Step 6:

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7. Step 7:

   After clicking ok you have your swept cut performed and SolidWorks removes the tool body.