Sweep

Sweep pulls a flat profile along a path of sketch lines into a solid — pipes, rails, handles, curved channels.

How to use it

1. Pick the Sweep tool and click one or more profile faces (same sketch plane).
2. Click the path: one or more lines — straight or curved, in any sketch — that connect end-to-end and cross the profile's plane. Click a picked line again to remove it; pick order doesn't matter, the segments chain tip-to-tail.
3. A translucent preview of the swept solid follows every pick. Choose where the result lands:
   • New body — the sweep stands alone.
   • Add to touching bodies — it fuses into whatever it touches.
   • Cut bodies — it's carved out of bodies you click into the Cut bodies picker; the preview shows the finished cut.
4. Enter commits; Esc cancels.

The context pane lists the picked profile faces and path lines as element pickers — each row has a ✕ to remove it. In the Elements pane's graph view, the profile's sketch and every path line feed the Sweep operation, and the swept body hangs off it as its output. Select a committed sweep and press Edit sweep in the context pane to re-open it with its faces, path, and body mode loaded.

Help

Scripting

bearcad.sweep{
  circles = { 0 },          -- and/or polygon = { line indices of a closed loop }
  path = { 4, 5 },          -- line indices, chained tip-to-tail
  body = "cut",             -- "add" | "cut"; omit for a new body
  bodies = { 0 },           -- the Add/Cut body list
  name = "Handle",
}

Interactive sweeps replay to the command log as the same call.