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Re: Tubing In Autodesk
Man I really have to jump on this Inventor bandwagon.

Typically though in CAD softwares, you draw your path, or line that you want a shape to follow & then you draw a profile. Link the 2 together by a mate or constraint, normally the center of the profile (circle) to the endpoint of your path, and then do a sweep, command to extrude that profile along that path.

No idea how inventor handles this though, or what the commands are called. (Sorry)

Some CAD systems make you draw the profile first, and some make you draw the path first.
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