Creating Swept Walls

This section explains and illustrates how to create and use various kinds of swept walls, i.e. walls based on a given profile that is swept along a spine.

	Create a flange: select a spine, and set the radius, length, and angle values.
	Create a hem: select a spine, and set the radius, and length values.
	Create a tear drop: select a spine, and set the radius, and length values.
	Create a swept flange: select a spine, and a user-defined profile

Selecting the Spine

Whatever the type of the swept wall you wish to create, you first need to select one or more contiguous edges to make up the spine along which the contour, either pre- or user-defined, is to be swept. You can:

manually select one, or more, edge(s)

Selection without propagation

Resulting flange without propagation

select one edge and click the Tangency Propagation button: all contiguous and tangent edges are selected. In this case, would you need to remove one edge, you need to manually select it. Remember that only extremity edges can be removed without breaking the continuity between edges.

Selection with propagation

Resulting flange with propagation