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Special Features: Sweep, Loft and Wrap

Sweep: Bottle

For the next exercise we'll build the following bottle; notice the complete

absence of straight linear edges and almost no flat faces in the model. This is a

good example of a model that would be very difficult, if not impossible to complete

using simple prismatic features.

*Image made using Rea/View graphics

In this model we'll use two sweep features, one for the body and one for the

thread. For the body we'll make a sweep with two guide curves, therefore we need

to make four sketches for the first sweep feature: Path, Guide Curve 1, Guide

Curve 2 and Profile, in that order. The reason to make the Profile last is that it has

to pierce the Path and both Guide Curves for the sweep feature to work as

expected.

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