Guided loft: Create a surface using non-planar profiles
Description: 5 minutes; Lab exercise: 20 minutes
Use non-planar profiles to create a surface.
Non-planar profiles, or planar profiles that are not orthogonal to the spine,
can be used to create a surface.
- Birails are not supported.
- There may be unexpected results when using non-planar
profiles, especially when using Variation Options:
- The attachment point position is not clearly defined for
non-planar profiles.
- With Offset Scaling, the offset is applied orthogonally to
the spine at the attachment point.
Lab exercise
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- Save the file
nonPlanarProfile.pkg on
your system.
- Load the nonPlanarProfile.pkg file.
- Click Surfacing
.
- Click Guided Loft
in the Create Face section.
- Select the two curves as the
Spine.
- Select the edges of the non-planar opening on the cylinder
and the edges of the planar rectangle as the
Profile Edges. Select the non-planar profile as you would a planar
profile.
If the spine is too short to calculate an
attachment point with the profile, you will get an error message.
Add a curve to the
spine to increase its length and an attachment point will be generated by the
system.

-
Click
to complete the operation.
