Hi eveyone,
i have a twist shape
i really really really want to learn how to make it (if you can, please show me step by step)
i try my best to do it but it doesn't look like this
i appreciate for your support.
Thank you guys!
LOFT. Unlike SWEEP, it lets you define the specific orientation [and even different shapes/sizes/etc.] at both ends.
Draw the end shapes that are rectangles in your example [red], and the path [yellow] -- it seems to be important that the path touches the rectangles. LOFT command, pick the rectangles & Enter to end, and a funny temporary thing will appear, but choose the Path option and pick the yellow.
Vary the twistiness with additional intermediate rectangles -- here the bottom is the one from above, the middle is the one from including the midway rectangle in the top un-Lofted pieces:
[You must select the rectangles in the order you want them along the result.]
Multiple shapes:
Kent Cooper, AIA 
Can i ask you one more question.?
i think the puzzle part is how to join 1 vs 1; 2 vs 2; 3 vs 3; 4 vs 4 ( attached image)
Thank you.!
I was going to say: By having the Spline path go from corner 1 to corner 1 [or any of the other corresponding corners]. But I'm surprised to find that it doesn't necessarily work that way -- an edge of the result doesn't necessarily follow the path, even when that goes from a corner to a corresponding corner [they're even the same vertex number in the two Polylines]:
I don't use LOFT enough to have experience with controlling that kind of thing. I hope someone out there knows how to do it.
Kent Cooper, AIA
