If not, click the reverse direction button and confirm. 1875”, zoom in on one of the ends of the handrail and make sure the wall thickness is extruding outside the sketch.

Check the Merge Tangent Edges box and the Thin-Feature box.

In the path selection box (highlighted blue) select your path sketch from the Graphics Area.

Select the Sweep tool on the Features tab of the CommandManager and set the profile to circular profile and set the diameter to 2 inches.

Sketch the path of the handrail as shown in the drawing making sure that the arcs are tangent with the lines.

Open SolidWorks and start a new sketch on the Right Plane.

In this exercise, you will follow many of the same steps as with the circular sweep except with activating the Thin Feature option for the Swept Boss/Base to create the 2130008 Hand Rail. If you expect your sweep to be all one piece, such as with the paper clip, then select the “Merge Tangent Faces” option.įigure 6.23 Circular Profile Sweep.: Construction lines were offset from the path in the path sketch to dimension the paper clip based on wire extents. In the property manager for sweep, select the “Circular Profile” option and click your path sketch for the path selection box. Then, you must exit the sketch and choose the sweep option. A paper clip path sketch is shown above in figure 6.23 (construction lines were added to dimension the sketch based on the wire diameter of the steel used for the paper clip). To do this type of sweep, first sketch your path on the plane that will get you your desired orientation. This type of feature would be common for parts made from wire, such as springs and paper clips, or solid cylindrical bar stock that is bent, such as rebar configurations. This makes it so this kind of feature only requires one sketch to create a new feature and doesn’t require any sketches when only modifying a feature (see SolidWorks Help: Creating Rods and Tubes with a Circular Profile).

The guide curve must be coincident with the profile or with a point in the profile sketch.ĭoing a sweep with a circular path along a simple path is straightforward because circular profiles are built into the sweep tool.

Neither the section, the path, nor the resulting solid can be self-intersecting.

The path must intersect the plane of the profile.

The path may be a set of sketched curves contained in one sketch, a curve, or a set of model edges.

The profile must be closed for a base or boss sweep feature the profile may be open or closed for a surface sweep feature.

Sweeps must follow these rules (Taken from SolidWorks Help on Sweep Rules):

Pan in solidworks with the path