Using the Sweep tool to cut a "V" shaped groove in a face of a body

[paulgill28]

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24276 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
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Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.1
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)

I have created a door panel using sketch and pad in Part Design Work Bench. I want to place a series of parallel "V" shaped grooves 10mm wide x 5mm deep starting and ending 111mm from the bottom and top of the door panel.

In trying to achieve this I created a "V" shaped sketch on the X-Y plane on rear edge/face of the bottom of the door. Visible in bottom view.

I then created a path sketch on the rear face of the door on the Y-Z plain starting 111mm from the bottom of the door and ending 111mm from the top of the door. Visible in rear view.

I then used the sweep tool to create a "V" shaped groove in the rear face of the door expecting the sweep to start and end 111mm from the bottom and top of the rear door face.

The result was groove from the bottom of the door to 222mm from the top of the rear door face. In other words Freecad has ignored my 111mm offset of the path from the bottom of the door.

I have tried to adjust the placement property (starting point position) of the groove in the body parameters but without success.

Can anyone help resolve my issue with getting the sweep tool to start where I want it to or alternatively a simpler way to create a "V" shaped groove in a face of a body.

[Willem]

Give the sketch "Groove profile" a Z displacement of 111 mm to place it on the beginning of the path and the groove will succeed

Other way:
Delete the groove
Give the sketch "Groove profile" a Z displacement of 111 mm
Make a pocket of 1759 mm with reversed set to true

[paulgill28]

Willem

You are a star. It worked. Its what I wanted to do in the first place but was looking in the wrong place to input the offset(displacement. I was looking under Base rather than Attachment in the Sketch Properties.

Thanks a million.

Now I need to work out how to array the grove to repeat it across the face a number of times

Paul