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Jim Day
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The workshop can be found here: https://ftp.lstc.com/anonymous/outgoing/lsprepost/Training/Intro/

Alternatively, it seems you CAN use the “Edge Spin” option to generate the elbow, the advantage being that there is no need to pre-create curves compared to the aforementioned approach.  Position and Direction define a point on the axis of rotation and the orientation of that axis, respectively.  (Position is oddly placed in the figure below, but you get the idea.)