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importing excel points to inventor

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:07:38 GMT

Good afternoon. I have been trying to create a wing in inventor by lofting different airfoils together. To create each airfoil i import some coordinates from excel and join the points with lines. The shape looks good but the problem arises when lofting. When I loft two airfoils together, some lines appear on top of the surface connecting dots between different airfoils together. Is there a way to prevent this from happening (just lofting outer surface without lines appearing? Thank you very much.

Re: importing excel points to inventor

admaiora — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:42:45 GMT

Can you attach the file?

Re: importing excel points to inventor

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:46:24 GMT

here is the file

Re: importing excel points to inventor

admaiora — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:01:06 GMT

My advice use spilne for your loops, not lines.

Re: importing excel points to inventor

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:03:35 GMT

Thank you very much. I already tried using spline. However, when I use it, for some reason it doesn’t allow me to extrude it as it tells me it is an open loop and that there is a redundant point. I already mentioned this issue in a previous post which is at the top of the unread posts as of now.

Re: importing excel points to inventor

admaiora — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:06:48 GMT

Can you attach the excel file for just only 2 profiles?

Re: importing excel points to inventor

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:10:41 GMT

here are the two excel files

Re: importing excel points to inventor

admaiora — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:36:23 GMT

Re: importing excel points to inventor

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:14:44 GMT

That was really useful. Thank you very much. One last question, if I wanted to make the loft a particular thickness and make the insides hollow, what tool or option should I use?