Basic sweep cut on discreet sketch lines

[jeusterbrock]

I'm trying to engrave a surface with a streetmap. I'm running into trouble with the 'pipe' or 'sweep' function because it only allows me to cut one section of line at a time. It would be a huge hassle to manually 'pipe' 40-50 discreet lines and the selection tool won't let me select more than one line at a time.

I've included a photo sample of what I'm talking about.

There must be a simpler/more efficient way to make these cuts. does anyone know?

Thanks! 

[jeevesme]

I'm not sure if you need a pipe shape, but if not, you can go into the patch environment, select all of your sketch lines, extruded them, then thicken-cut them.

[jeusterbrock]

Hi Jeevesme,

Thanks so much for responding to my question. I like what you did with the patch extrude tool. While that gets close to what I'm looking to do, its not exactly what I was asking.

The pipe shape is actually important because I'd like it to mimic the cutting tool (a ball end mill).

Do you know any other workarounds to cut a semi-circle profile along an array of discreet sketch lines?

It seems like the 'pipe' or 'sweep' function would be most well-fit for the function, but perhaps theres another tool I don't know about.

Thanks!

[davebYYPCU]

Combine cut the piped street map in one go, this vid was for split body, not exactly what you want, but gives you a "how" to join the sweeps together

At 2.15 on this video you will see a technique to compile the street map into one body, by joining all the articles outside the target body, then it is one selection,

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/getting-started/caas/screencast/Main/Details/04e43...

Not seen your model, adapt patterns if you can for the sweeps, then join to one grid, then subtract the grid from the surface,

Sort of how I would approach it...