I would like to cut a profile normal to a cylinder to replicate a milling operation with a part on a rotary table. What i have done is use a wrap function because it seems it would be a quick method but not really sure how to locate the profile on the cylinder exactly right the first time. Would it be better to do a swept cut along a path and not mess with wrap?
Looking for some tips- either other methods or locating sketch so that the profile with a wrap will be where you want it once it is wrapped on surface. Thanks
I see that I still misunderstood your intent. The renaming suggestion still applies, but I now see that what you want is indeed a Swept Cut.
Start by creating the path for the cut. It may be beneficial to make a sketch, and project that sketch onto the cylinder:
Here is how I did it:
1. Sketch the path on a plane
2. Project the sketch onto the surface that will be cut
3. Create a plane on the end of the sketch, normal to its end point.
4. Create the profile of the cut on that plane
5. Finally, make a Swept Cut of the sketch and the projected curve.
6. Done! Now you have a cut that remains tangent to the cylinder, but can have an arbitrary path!