Hi eric,

> I didn't really expect MoI to cut the trapezoidal slope on the horizontal
> segments but thought maybe I could plane them off afterward if the
> result was a rectangular section throughout.

Yeah but sweep doesn't really understand that you want to alter the shape later - the miter corner thing is expecting to have things match up right at the sweep time...

There is a way you could get something like that to work though - if you use Edit/Separate on your path so that each line segment gets treated as an individual sweep path rather than as a connected path.

That will then produce something exactly like a set of simple boards for each line segment, without doing any corner mitering. But then you're going to need to handle extending and doing some of those additional cuts more manually.

The boolean method basically incorporates the planing for everything all in one shot. But also it kind of makes the result more as one combined piece (with the proper shape you are looking for I think though), not necessarily like a set of individual board pieces like a sweep type method would produce.

- Michael