Hi all - this part I designed is a little brute force as I am a learn-as-I-go type. That said, I have two arms of this bracket I now need to add an angle to in order to move what they hold. I want to edit the sweep path by moving the endpoint back on the Z axis 5mm or so. I understand the geometry for all of the other features will need to update or be editted, but for some reason I cannot change anything about the sweep path sketch. Can anyone provide some insight?
Thanks!
Your Sweep path sketches are on the wrong plane. You want to have these sketches on a plane PARALLEL to the path direction. With this arrangement, you can easily vary the inclination of the paths using an angle or dimension.
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OK great - I think I did do that in another iteration, perhaps. I attached it - would you mind giving that a look? Also the angle I need to manipulate the path is to make an angle > 90 deg from the side view:
So the spread between the arms is fine but I need to lean it to the right making a 95-100 deg angle (I have to experiment) from that flat tab on the bottom.
Maybe you could at least confirm I did this one correctly? Or I am not understanding. Thanks in advance!
This model has the same issue. The sketch plane for the Sweep paths is perpendicular to the sketch direction. You will not be able to control the path sketch from this angle. This one is the same as the previous one. The RED arrow is pointing to the two sketches that need to be on a plane looking in the GREEN direction. Look back at my post and the screen capture I placed on it. You can see the path sketch is looking in this direction.
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