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MDMichael Damiani29/07/2016

Hi all, I have a path that I'd like to sweep a cross-section along, where the cross-section is large enough to cause self-intersecting errors. The geometric result of this self-intersection, however, is exactly what I'm looking for.

I can work around it by sweeping different sections at different points, using revolves, etc., but I have a large quantity of fairly complicated paths (much longer than the example shown here) and it would be drastically more efficient if these sweeps could be done as singular features.

Is it possible to get SW to allow this self-intersection? Or perhaps there is an efficient workaround? Thanks in advance.

Self-intersecting sweep problem - desired result.png