The manual states that a path can be a combination of lines and curves:
Specify the sweep path:
The path can either be a single closed or single open path. You cannot have multiple paths. The path can be a combination of straight lines and curves, and it need not be planar.
this does not work for sweep blend????
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Unlike a sweep form, swept blends cannot be created along multi-segmented paths. However, profiles can be open, closed, or a combination of both.
Here is more details
http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-DC56F7E5-E10E-49CC-92CC-AD7B3E85C683
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
The llink I provided is good when you are in conceptional mass or creating mass element within the project.
Sweep blend is used when you have two diffrent profiles and you are allow to select one segmented path only. so you could creat as many line as possible but you need to do it segment by segment.
I guess you bette off with sweep. To reduce the file size you need to use more lines instead of curves and this also applied to the profile in question.
I simply split the seat shell into segments and created for each unite a sweep or sweep blend based on what was needed and then had fun matching the start and end profiles to each other.
Snapping tools in Revit are really inferior - but at the end it worked.
File size also went down from 2 MB to 345 KB.
Thanks for looking into this!
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
I am glad you end up making it to work, it may take more time to do things manually (use reference plane and align things together instead of using the move snap workflow)
but as long the family is simple it will simplify the project and it will optimize the speed of the model regen since a project is somehow an assembly of all loaded families' elements.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
I thought you were talking about once the element is created in 3d then you could use reference plane and align both elements faces to the same plane.
But I think what you are doing is a better way since you copied the profile that is hosted on profile plane so it will snap on the new active profile plane, I guess you need to use the move/snap feature.
By the way your english is good and my english isn't my native lanuguage, no worries.
For future, you could download Screen case from autodesk site to create videos (free), it will help others to better visualize the issue, since we are using 3d models, it is helpful to have a video.
https://screencast.autodesk.com/