Hello,

I want to sweep "one" profile but maintain a constant thickness of 0.5mm at a "sharp edge" so it can be manufactured. One approach is to rotate the points defining the upper and lower half of the profile around the tip as shown in the example.

Could this be automated, at least to some extend?








S.

Hi skipper, so do you mean you want to rotate 2 split halves similar to this? :





But won't that introduce a cusp in your profile at the rotation point here? :



Or ok I guess now that I read your question again it sounds like you are going to rotate only half the control points and not a cut apart piece.

So I guess what you would do would be to offset the centerline by half your desired thickness:




Then your end location would be the intersection of a circle with origin at your rotation origin and going through your endpoint, with the offset line:








The rotate command does internally create such a circle automatically and provides an intersection snap point so you can skip making the circle and only make the offset line.

Does that do what you need?

- Michael

A guy made an airfoil command awhile back. Maybe you could use that and plug in your numbers? Or do you want to hand build it?