Sweep Issues

[Art5]

I would like to run a sweep around the perimeter of my part. The profile is a circle. The center point of the circle is on the corner of one of my faces. The circle is perpendicular to the face. When I try to sweep the circle around the perimeter of my part, I get an error. I'd like to add, I keep getting different errors each time I try. I've already crashed my system multiple times. It's frustrating, this should be simple.

[TrippyLighting]

Given that you already have 15+ visible errors in the short part of the timeline that is visible in your screenshot I’d say that’s not a surprise. Can you share your design ? (export as .f3d. and attach to next post)

[Art5]

Those errors are in a completely different body. I'll get the surfaces in the screenshot up for you.

[Art5]

Here you go.

[TrippyLighting]

I'll be happy to look at it.

What I see in these errors is your extensive use of the "extend surface" tool. That tool creates broken/discontinuous edges and "tolerant vertices" in Autodesk lingo. This can negatively  influence the curvature of an edge and then interfere with sweeping along such an edge.

[Art5]

I do appreciate it.

We are a stamping facility. Often my job (designing stamping dies/tools) requires me to take cad data of the part the customer would like us to make, and design the tools from their part data. To to this, I must add "runoff" to the part, that is, extend the existing surfaces outward to make the metal keep it's shape past the raw trim of the part, without putting any buckles or creases in the part. The only effective ways that I have found to do this is fusion are to either use the extend tool, or to create 3D sketches of the edges and either extrude or sweep them in the desired direction (which is generally more time consuming). Is there a better way to achieve this? Being a prototype shop, the customer generally needed their parts yesterday by the time I receive data. 

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

@ryan.bales @jeff_strater this would be an interesting case to explore limitations o the sweep tool. It does some quite "interesting" things.

@Art5 In the end I get it done it it is not exactly sooth sailing.

[Art5]

After watching your screencast I followed the procedure you outlined, and was able to create the sweep I needed. I'll add that playing around with the selections and whatnot I was even able to make it happen with somewhat less issues than illustrated in the screencast.

       Thanks a million,

                                      Art