Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now create a swept solid feature, swept shell feature, or swept cut feature that follows a three-dimensional sweep path. You can also select any face of your part as the sweep profile for solid or cut sweeps, and you can select a set of edges or wires on your part as the sweep profile for a shell sweep. These enhancements and other new options increase the functionality and usability of swept features.
Description: Abaqus/CAE now enables you to define a three-dimensional sweep path when you add a swept feature to a part. Figure 4–5 shows an example of a solid sweep that follows a three-dimensional spline as its path.
When you define the sweep profile, you can now select one of the faces on your part as the sweep profile for swept solid features or swept cut features, and you can now select one or more edges as the sweep profile for swept shell features.
Several options have also been added to the definition of swept features that allow you to:
Apply a twist or draft to a swept feature.
Control whether the normal to the sweep profile remains constant as the profile travels along the sweep path.
Maintain any faces or edges that are generated between the swept solid feature and the existing part. The internal boundaries may create regions that can be structured or swept meshed without having to resort to partitioning.
Part module:
Shape
Solid/Shell/CutSweep