Maybe this would be a PowerPack or just a new feature, but, this can be quite useful for those designing ribs/frames in aircraft, submarines, and ship hulls.

Assumptions:

- the design, whatever length, has 50-200 stations
- the stations may or may not be of different sizes within one or more zones, say up to 15
- each station has stiffening
- each stiffener has a web and a flange (or, could just be flatbar stiffened
- each web is formed by a profile of curves with an associated surface that will be swept
- each flange is formed by a profile of curves with an associated surface that will be swept


This has to be done 50-200 times

OR

-- ONE pattern per zone could be defined by the user, from a profile pattern/template
-- the sweep command is initiated
-- the surface to be swept is selected
-- the station curves are selected (singly, or in a lasso/right select, but the app should deduce the ascending direction or ask for it)


Such a feature would remove between 4 and 8 clicks per sweep. Imagine that 50 sweeps require 4 clicks. Imagine 8 clicks

Now, that's just for transverse framing, swept along stations in a hull or fuselage.

Now, imagine doing that for shell longitudinal stiffeners, but now, you have 4 decks, or more, and you have 4 or 5 shell longitudinal stiffeners per deck, or 16-20 of them in 4 decks. Again, 4 to 8 clicks (not even counting angular adjusttments involving switching into and out of Gripper angles set per user-selected origins).

Now, you have to deck longitudinals.

Now, you have to do deck transverses.

A "Sweep-by-example" would expand on "it thinks while you draw">

This would remove a lot of "session fatigue" and likely dramatically boost workflow and productivity.

WITHOUT the user needing to write macros or slog away at mind-numbing tedium of doing this when multiple models for studies need to be created.