Guided loft: Create a surface using Orientation options

Description: 5 minutes; Lab exercise: 20 minutes

In Guided Loft, a local coordinate system moves along the spine in order to reference how profiles are turned when swept along a spine. Use an orientation option to influence how a profile is turned along a spine.

The Orientation Options work the same way as the options By Spine, By Constant Birail, and By Face in the Advanced Sweep command.

There are three Orientation Options:

When there are two faces attached to the spine, click Side to switch between faces.

Lab exercises

By Guide Curve

  1. Save the file byGuideCv.pkg on your system.

  2. Load the byGuideCv.pkg file.

  3. Click Surfacing .
  4. Click Guided Loft in the Create Face section.
  5. Select the line as the Spine.
  6. Select the triangle as the Profile Edges.
  7. Choose by Guide Curve from the Orientation drop-down menu.
  8. Select the remaining curve as the guide curve.
  9. Click Preview.  Click Flip Faces, if necessary, to bring the face normal to the outside of the surface.
  10. Click to complete the operation.

The guided loft surface

The guided loft surface with coordinate systems showing in which direction the surface was turned.

By Spine

  1. Save the file byspine.pkg on your system.

  2. Load the byspine.pkg file.

  3. Click Surfacing .
  4. Click Guided Loft in the Create Face section.
  5. Select the line as the Spine.
  6. Select the triangle as the Profile Edges.
  7. The default in the Orientation drop-down menu is by Spine.
  8. Click Preview.  Click Flip Faces, if necessary, to bring the face normal to the outside of the surface.
  9. Click to complete the operation.

By Face

  1. Save the file byface.pkg on your system.

  2. Load the byface.pkg file.

  3. Click Surfacing .
  4. Click Guided Loft in the Create Face section.
  5. Select the edge as the Spine.
  6. Select the curve as the Profile Edges.
  7. Choose by Face from the Orientation drop-down menu.
  8. Click Preview.
  9. Click to complete the operation.