I'm trying to recreate a car part that has a rounded-raised center section my initial idea doesn't seem to work
- Original Part profile
- IMG_3107.png (874.51 KiB) Viewed 721 times
- Original Part outline
- IMG_3105 (Medium).png (936.71 KiB) Viewed 721 times
My thought was to make an outline, and then create a 'rounded' sketch and sweep it around the outline, but I've run into LOTS of issues with that! First of all, if I select the sketch (called Outline Profile in my project), and click on Additive Pipe, I immediately get this error:
- Error Message
- Error Msg.png (10.13 KiB) Viewed 721 times
If I ignore the message and tell it to sweep around the outline, I get strange shapes like this:
- Odd shape
- Odd .jpeg (77.26 KiB) Viewed 721 times
so I'm obviously doing something wrong!
Can someone look at my original part and tell me how they'd start designing it? Thanks for your help.
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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.1.29410 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-20
Hash: f5d13554ecc7a456fb6e970568ae5c74ba727563
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.1, Vtk 8.2.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods:
* 3D_Printing_Tools
* fasteners 0.3.46
* Help 1.0.3
* Lithophane