Swept cut question

[JSMachine]

I'm trying to perform a swept cut on the edge of a knife blade I have drawn. I have been successful in getting the cut to start but it won't do the entire edge. The edge consists of line segments and arcs. There are probably about twenty of them from the rear edge (where the reference plane is inserted) all the way to the tip. I inserted the reference plane right at the start of the cut, because at first I did not have it that way and was having trouble getting the cut to start. It was giving me an error message saying that the path had to intersect the plane.

I have drawn a sketched line on top of the solid model that mimics the edge. It is however, still a broken line. When I try to execute the cut, it tells me it must be a smooth profile (or something to that effect). I cannot seem to replicate that at the moment so I can't give a detailed description of the error.

once I get the cut, I will then mirror it over to the other side of the blade.

Any hints on how to accomplish what I'm aiming for here would be appreciated.

 

[JSMachine]

Sorry, the link in the first post isn't good. This one should work.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Create a Composite Curve from the edges involved and use that as the path for the swept-cut.

 

[JSMachine]

This is what I get. Like I said, I knew it would probably do this. I don't know how to make the edge of the blade one flowing continuous line to begin with.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

http://help.solidworks.com/2011/Eng.../sldworks/curves/hidd_dve_composite_curve.htm

Are the edge segments tangential to each adjacent segment?

Did you try different Options in the Swept-cut?

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