Revolve Object


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Revolve Object is an interesting tool. The key thing is that it operates off the Selected Edge, and circles don't really have one, or, maybe more correctly they ONLY have one, so they're ... finicky.

Try drawing a Circle in an Elevation View, then using the Convert Curve To Polyline tool to break the circle into a series of smaller edges.

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Then convert to a 3D Solid.

This allows a specific edge to be selected in order to revolve around.

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I added +1 to the Rotate About X axis in this example to get a nice outward curve (rotating a full 90 at that exact edge tends to allow surfaces to merge and, well it's not a very realistic bend anyway.)

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Tea Time, thanks for the solution!  This thought came to me last night while I was on my thinking chair. I have done this by also drawing a regular polygon with many sides, converting that to either a face or solid and then using the rotate tool.  Thanks for your insights on this!!

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