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Making swept cuts

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Making swept cuts

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about swept cuts. Now a swept cut is very similar to a regular sweep, but instead of adding material, we're going to be removing some material. So the most common use of a swept cut that I use is to do something like a profile around the outside of a part. And that's going to be my first example. So right over here I've got this, it's like a molding little shape. You see that right there and that shape, which is, let's go down here and figure out which one that is. I think that's going to be sketch number two. Here's sketch two. So that's the shape that I want to drag around the perimeter of this part to, you know, create that decorative edge. So that'd be very similar to like a router bit. You might take a router, go around a piece of material like this to get that shape or like a molding tool or something like that. So you can make whatever shape you want, but we need a profile and a path for a swept cut. So let's go up here to swept cut. Here it is. And…

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