Originally Posted by
mtylerfl
That's fantastic, Steve!
I'll add a couple quick tips to augment your excellent tutorial video:
1) The Red and Green line order is determined by which line is drawn FIRST for the two-rail sweep. The first line will be the Green one when you go into the profile drawing window. Drawing the angle line first, makes it the green one which is intuitively the reverse of the profile direction as shown. You and I both drew the angled line first.
If we drew the vertical line first, then that line becomes the green one and the profile direction would visually match. It does NOT matter which one is drawn first or second (as far as the sweep functionality)...you just make sure you draw the sweep profile according to the visual red/green guidelines (even if it looks 'backwards'). The profile sweep will still work correctly, as we see in the example.
2) The attachment method shown in the video is a good technique to know and to learn. There is a shortcut method to making sure the profile extends all the way to either side, by clicking the icon "Fit to Left and Right Guides" it does the same thing, but does not "lock" the position like an attachment does. So, attaching is really good for locking the ends, if necessary...the shortcut is handy if locking isn't required.