I'm trying to build a stand for a spaceship, where the stand itself inserts into one of the rockets and widens out to simulate a smoke trail.
Swept Boss/Base seems to be the way to do this, with a guide line to taper the object, but I keep having problems.
I understand how it's *supposed* to work...but am having a hard time getting it to work right. Here's a view of the sketches involved:
If I do just the Profile and Path, I get a constant-diameter tube (as advertised). But when I try to bring in a guide line to taper the curved tube, I just can't get it to work reliably. In this particular case, it only builds the tube to the top of the short straight segments before the splines take off.
In other cases, I get weird alerts and it doesn't build at all.
Any advice? I've attached a ZIP file with a sample part.
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