Problems with extrude along a path

[Roger]

Ok, so I have decided that rather than try and tackle brand new material when I'm exhausted at the end of the day, I'm going to try to finish things I'm a bit more proficient at, like modeling projects I've been working on.

 

I only need to do a few more parts for my treasure chest, and it will be done. One of those things is a clasp for the padlock to go through.

 

I'm trying to make a U-shaped piece of metal, and have drawn out my path and the cross-section for the path. When I do the extrude along a path operation, though, I get a strange twist in the object.

I don't see any kind of twist settings in the plugin, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

 

Here is a screenshot of what I'm talking about:

 

 

 

I can use the sweeper plug-in instead, I guess, but what confuses me about that is you can use the drop-down arrow in the interface to choose the cross-section but there is nothing to define the path (unlike in the extruder).

[Roger]

I just grabbed Homeslice's tutorials (should probably have done a forum search first) so I'm going to go over those before I post any further.

 

Seems like I must be missing something obvious though.

[Roger]

Darn double-post.

[Roger]

Ok well I figured out what the heck I was doing wrong with Sweeper. I didn't have the cross-section centered around 0,0 on the X-Z axis. I suspect I must be doing something similar with the extrude plug-in.