{"id":388789,"date":"2024-10-09T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-draft-3d-line-sweep-loft\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:38:56","slug":"how-to-draft-3d-line-sweep-loft","status":"answered","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-draft-3d-line-sweep-loft\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Draft 3D Line, Sweep, Loft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m trying to model a complex routing of flexible hoses in 3D, non-planar, space. In other software I would typically draw 3D lines and fillet them at corners, or I would draw as 3D spline. Then I would sweep or loft my profile(s). But I cannot find a way to do this in Discovery. Or any other way to coil a long cylinder through non-planar 3D space. Everything I tried allows me only to sketch in one plane.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I found some old SpaceClaim tutorials showing the approach of placing points in 3D space, then connecting them. Apart from being tedious in terms of having to place so many points, this also doesn&#8217;t work. What is the way to do this in Ansys SpaceClaim\/Discovery?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just for a very simplistic illustration of what I&#8217;m trying to do, please see the screenshot. The actual case would be much more complex, a couple dozen of pipes coiling around each other.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/09-10-2024-1728487074-Screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-388789","topic","type-topic","status-answered","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m trying to model a complex routing of flexible hoses in 3D, non-planar, space. In other software I would typically draw 3D lines and fillet them at corners, or I would draw as 3D spline. Then I would sweep or loft my profile(s). But I cannot find a way to do this in Discovery. 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