Lofting with rails

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Hi all,

I have a part that I'm trying to loft using 3d sketches for the rails will this work? Everything is fine till I try to add the rails, As you can see the loft works with out the rails.

Thanks for looking

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

Your rail curves are not smooth (tangent) as indicated by the error message.

Therefore either add appropriate fillets or do a spline if that gets your design intent

or

if your design intent is straight lines as you have your rails - then simply do two lofts.

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Thanks JD. that will work for what I need on this. But if I need to, where would I add fillets?

[JDMather]

At the intersections of the  lines in  your 3D sketch. (Bends in 3D sketch)

But actually - I almost never ever create a 3D sketch as you have.

Nearly all of my 3D sketches are a result of Intersection Curve of 2D sketches.
Much easier to control and edit.

So, I would have had a Front and Side (in your case) 2D sketches with fillet constrained in one or the other (depending on design intent) to Sketch8, then found the 3D intersecting curve.

Yours is a simpler case of the 3D sketch in the Vacuum tutorial in my signature.

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Ok I've seen the vacuum  part before, I'll have to go back and review, it's been awhile.

Thanks again.