topic Re: Can't loft body in Fusion Support Forum

Can't loft body

nectarietotan — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:32:12 GMT

Hi! I have a problem, I want to loft a body, it's quite complex, but I can't, I keep getting errors.

I will post photos of the object I want to model, but it's not the same, I have other dimensions because I want to make it more compact.

Re: Can't loft body

davebYYPCU — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:50:17 GMT

Not enough control of the shape in those sketches.

Make a sketch on ZY Plane, connect the shape at this location using Project > Intersect for the 4 points to connect to.

When you do that, still won’t work, because 2 sketches have sharp points.

Circle can’t loft to the horizontal sketch, if the corner is aligning with the same plane.

Use Surface Loft, and small sections at a time.

Might help….

Re: Can't loft body

TrippyLighting — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:31:32 GMT

How's this for a start?

Re: Can't loft body

nectarietotan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:57:46 GMT

That's very nice looking, like what I wanted, how did you do this?

Re: Can't loft body

TrippyLighting — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:02:14 GMT

I attached a model to my last post. If you step through the timeline, you should be able to see how this was modeled.

Re: Can't loft body

nectarietotan — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:47:18 GMT

Thank you for your help till this point, I still have a problem, I tried @TrippyLighting method using the timeline from the 3d model he provided, and it worked, but I don't get an exactly nice shape when doing the fillet, I don't quite get continuation for the first face/profile. I divided the upper body by the second face/profile and then tried to loft the upper section of the first face/profile and the newly divided section, but the loft is not nicely executed.....What should I do?

Re: Can't loft body

TrippyLighting — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:52:56 GMT

@nectarietotan wrote:

What should I do?

Share your model.

The screenshots indicate that you did not understand or follow the workflow in my model 😉

Re: Can't loft body

nectarietotan — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:25:52 GMT

Here is the model.

Re: Can't loft body

TrippyLighting — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:00:33 GMT

Your model does not have a timeline, which does not allow me to reproduce your workflow.

Re: Can't loft body

TrippyLighting — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:40:30 GMT

The sketch inputs you have created don't lend themselves to a fillet.

I used a surface modeling approach and simply had to guess what you're after.

If you want to actually make a physical artifact, then would strongly recommend that you use a caliper to measure key dimensions and then fully constrain and dimension your sketches!

(view in My Videos)

Edit: I've replaced the attached model with one that has a timeline 😉

Re: Can't loft body

nectarietotan — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:49:13 GMT

Thank you so much! I didn't know I could use surface modelling, I only worked with solid, you did exactly what I wanted to do!