topic Re: loft twisting in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

loft twisting

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:53:44 GMT

I'm trying to build to build a bridge and one side comes out the way I want it and the other side twists. How do I fix the twisting side?

Re: loft twisting

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 04:37:39 GMT

I have observed your sketch entity is not defined, please define some dimensions & constrains & try again, & use solid loft.

Re: loft twisting

jeff_strater — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:14:55 GMT

@Anonymous - I've spent a couple of hours looking at this. This is a bug in Fusion or its modeling kernel. It is what we call a "point mapping" problem. You have 3 profiles here, that have exactly the same number of curves and points, yet Fusion incorrectly maps the points from one profile to the next. Weirdly, this happens only on one side of the loft, not the other.

You can interactively untangle the point mapping by dragging the white points around. In this case, there are some extraneous points added that I tried to get rid of.

I tried for a long time to untangle this loft, and failed.

My next attempt was to try to take advantage of the symmetry here - just model 1/2 of the form, and mirror to get the other half. So, I added midpoint lines to your sketches:

Then, I tried to loft the "good" half. The preview looked great:

but, on OK, it twisted:

The "bad" half, however, is OK, when done by itself:

So, that is one approach - loft half and mirror.

The only other approach I was able to make work is to add lots of rail curves. Usually, just one rail is enough to poke loft in the right direction, but in this case, it would not untangle itself until I added 5 of them:

This seems to produce a desirable result:

That's the best I have for now. We will investigate this bug further. Thanks for reporting it.

Re: loft twisting

TheCADWhisperer — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:41:19 GMT

See Attached...

Duplicate thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/loft/td-p/10265801

Re: loft twisting

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:07:31 GMT

thanks for helping I really appreciate it, I spent over 6 hours trying to find solutions.