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Sweeping the groove

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Sweeping the groove

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- [Instructor] Okay, this time we are going to sweep the groove, or sweeping the groove. That's chapter six-11. What do I mean by that? Well, we have to create another void form, which sweeps around. We could make individual recessors like we did previously, but that seems a little bit pointless when we've got a better way of creating this groove. We need to edit, so let's make sure we select the right bit and edit in place. Then, I'm going to first of all create the path for the sweep, and you notice that there's no sweeping options that we have in some of the other, sort of, family editors. The massing environment, just kind of assumes that it picks the best options for us which isn't always the case, but provided we give it enough of a hint then it usually does the thing that we want it to. So, I'm going to use pick lines this time and I'm also going to set my work plane. My work plane is going to be on this, sort of, shelf recess. Select that. Let's just show it. We can just about…

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