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Swept - Siemens NX Tutorial

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Swept

- [Instructor] Now, I wanna talk about a tool called Swept. Not Sweep Along Guide, it's called Swept. It does something similar to Sweep Along Guide, where it takes a section and sweeps it along a guide string, but it's far more powerful. So we go under this Surface tab and we'll go into Swept. Now, the first thing I want you to notice, let me close some of these up, so we can actually see more of the menu, go ahead and close this. What I want you to notice is first, that there's a lot more options with the Swept function than the Sweep Along Guide. We have sections. Plural. We can have more than one section. In fact, we can have over 100 sections, if need be. If you're doing that, you have to have a really good reason. I'd say you'd probably, maybe you're doing like a fan blade or rotor, something like that where you need specific shapes at specific locations and that's where you do that. But typically speaking, the fewer sections that you have, the better off in the long-run. And…

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