topic Re: How do I do a loft revolve? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How do I do a loft revolve?

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:21:09 GMT

How do I do this loft operation? It's like a revolve operation, but it follows the border shown in blue. It's a contoured faceplate for a consumer product.

Re: How do I do a loft revolve?

TrippyLighting — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:08:15 GMT

Could you share the design ?

I am no loft expert and still recovering from the last brutal battle with it (not sure yet who won), but you'll need to break this into profiles and rails and have to experiment with it.
It'll take some nerves 😉

I am assuming you want the loft to adhere to the flat-on-the -floor spline that in your screenshot is not selected as a profile ?

Re: How do I do a loft revolve?

jeff_strater — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:36:36 GMT

I think all you need to do is to select that curve as a rail curve. It should not be a "centerline" rail, but a "regular" rail curve.

If that's not obvious, I can create a quick screencast with similar geometry.

[edit] forgot to add the picture:

Hope this makes sense, and gets you past this roadblock.

Jeff

Re: How do I do a loft revolve?

TrippyLighting — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:42:03 GMT

Correct:

Re: How do I do a loft revolve?

cekuhnen — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:21:04 GMT

One of those aspects where Loft again is also amazing with what it can do 🙂 !