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This assume that you are creating a degree 3 spline, AutoCAD's default. It important to note that when creating a spline using CVs that if 3 CVs are at the same location the spline can have a sharp corner there. You could eyeball the location for these CVs or place points at a distance of the radius from the corner. I used spheres to help me estimate where to place CVs. Use splinedit to convert the spline to a 3dpoly (precision 1) which is acceptable to sweep. Unfortunately, the resulting spline is not acceptable to the sweep command. The explode of the 3dpoly is necessary because I had trouble with the object snaps nearest working consistently on a 3dpoly during this process. To make this easier - ungroup all the object and break apart the curves. deleting the loops and smoothing out the vectors gives us something like this. The result will be a single spline that looks like this. The next step is to make sure Enroute is seeing the DXF with the right units and as nice smooth curves. Give the spline command followed by M (method) and CV (Control Vertices).Ĭlick osnap end at the end of the line (1), then click 3 times using Nearest at a point on the line approximately a distance equal to the radius of the sphere (2, 3, 4), pick once at the corner (5) then 3 times on the line exiting from the corner as shown below.Ĭontinue the process along the 3dpoly adding 3 CVs at the entry to a corner, one CV at the corner, and 3 CVs leaving the corner. The spheres will be used to estimate the radius size. The red box is included to aid in visualizing the 3D nature of the geometry. After clicking on the Fillet icon on the Features toolbar, you will be presented with a choice of four different fillet types. The green lines in the image below is the 3dpoly and the spheres indicate where the corners should be rounded. The FilletXpert is not available when working with a part that has multiple configurations. Add a sphere with the radius for the corners you want at each corner of the 3dpoly.
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Start with the 3dpoly that has sharp corners and explode it to lines. Here's a method to convert a 3dpoly that really bends at odd angles in three dimensions to a 3D path with rounded corner that can be used with the sweep command to create a 3D tube.