I'm trying to do a Cut-Sweep with a solid body following a spline path, and it just doesn't work. I've tried varying the extent of the path that I follow, varying the plane on which I build the solid body, and varying the shape of the solid body. Either (most often) I get a message along the lines of "Sweep failed to complete", or Solidworks crashes, or I get an incomplete cut as in the attached model. Even following a short portion of the path, I believe the solid body sweep shouldn't leave so much of the part untouched.
The curve that makes the sweep path was generated with a motion study in a different assembly. I've tried changing the density of points along this curve when I generate it, and that doesn't seem to help either.
I'm following the same procedure I used to make a very similar previous part, when it worked fine. Now, no dice.
Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks for any pointers.
Max,.. yep, it (2014 and later) will not do it.... and yes,.. it crashed on me as well 2X.. but, personally, I would first examine what this sphere or tool body is doing along the path.. that is, do a pattern along the path and notice it basically shows you a profile and gives you some clues (a start/end and transition)... then, you can break this down into something simpler.. what I did was offset the curve 12mm and sweep till the path degrades and blend/trim into the end ball.