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DavidOldham

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Hi all,

Fairly new to revit but I am trying to reconstruct a ruined old church building. It has several of these gothic style arched windows which I was trying to use a sweep to model. It is a curved surface around sharp corners as shown in the picture. Keep getting this error message when trying some sweeps but not others, not sure if its just becuase it follows a sharp corner or if there is a better way of doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Using 2019 educational licence on a general family template.

Thanks.

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Your image doesn't tell us much about what you are trying to do.  We can see the sharp corners but without knowing what path you are trying to follow and what your profile may be, I know I can't answer you.

For many profile shapes, the path has to be on the inside edge of the sweep.  If it is on the outside edge, the profile has to turn back on itself and that can not happen.

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DavidOldham

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Hi

I am trying to get the orange curved section to continue around the corner to the top of the arch, the path it is following is the inside edge where the orange bit is at 90 degrees.

Appologies if the image is unclear.

David.

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I don't believe I have communicated well enough with you.  Do this experiment.  Draw a simple rectangle.  Now create a complex shape and use it to sweep around the inside of the rectangle.  Now do that again but so that the shape will go around the outside of the rectangle.  One should work and the other may not.

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Hi David, I have a solution that might work for you. As you I also have to model complicated things in my job, and Revit some times is not so intuitive on that, and in some cases we get errors. Bute here is a possible solution.

Make an extrusion to fill up that space, and then make a sweep void to carve out the round part, make the void in that line I marked in the pic.

Try and let me know, we'll get this.

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DavidOldham

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Hi Arqrivas thanks for the suggestion,

Gave it a go and it got a little further this time although still did not complete its path, attached images.

Thanks again.

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Ok, I see, I have another Idea but it might be a little long process. Can you upload that piece to try to make it, that way I can give you a solution that will work, if not, then I will explain you the other idea I have that could work.

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DavidOldham

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Hi, sorry for the late reply,

Attached is the Revit file and the image that I am trying to copy.

Thanks.

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arqrivas

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Hi, thanks for the file, I'll work on a solution, it might take me some time as I'm really busy right now with some projects, but I'll find a way to do this.

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