Help to make a draft path/wire/spline in 3D space

[leoheck]

@papyblais and @GlouGlow this is nice your models are really good to pass an electrical wire inside. I will try to reproduce it here but it looks hard to understand just looking at the FCStd file.

Do you mind explaining your process?

[leoheck]

@papyblaise, I was able to use your method. I also applied it to another model (attached here). It worked perfectly as you can see below.

Guys, thanks for all of your effort in helping me with that.

Final 3D duct

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This is my progress if you are interested. The side view is what I was looking for.

Front view

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Top view

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Side view

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After printing it and assembling it the end result is this.

Before, considering the first model, it was taking about 5 minutes to assembly because passing wires was so hard.

Now, it takes less than 5 seconds to pass the wires in the duct. This is awesome.

3d Print

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[fmluizao]

Very nice result

[leoheck]

Thanks, the latest result has one issue. It keeps importing the 'Section' used to create the duct when I import it to another model.

[leoheck]

Hi, I finished printing my model in 3d. I updated the post before with the real picture. I printed it in 3 parts because I wanted to print each part in a specific orientation to use less filament and less time.