Guided loft

Description: 10 minutes; Lab exercises: 2 hours

Create a surface by moving, or blending, one or more profiles along a spine and birail curves - without the use of workplanes! Control the shape of those generated surfaces by using the Variation Options available in the Guided loft dialog.

Guided Loft is a combination of the Sweep and Loft commands without the need for multiple workplanes.  The sweep part of the functionality moves one or more profiles along a smooth spine and automatically creates intermediate help profiles, which are lofted to create surfaces.  If the spine is made up of several curves, the curves should have either a tangential or curvature continuous connect condition.

The spine, profiles, and birails can be 2D or 3D edges. For best results, use planar profiles that are orthogonal to the spine.

Tips when working with Guided loft:

If these conditions are not met, some options in the Guided loft dialog are disabled.

 

Lab exercises

These 12 labs will help you understand the options of Guided loft.

Prerequisites

 

A description of each of the options in Guided Loft is available in each lab. Choose from the following labs: