Cannot loft hollow object

[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you do a Revolve instead?

Or Extrude with Taper?

Or two Lofts, one to create cone and one to cut cone.

Or Loft, Shell and then Combine?

[chrisplyler]

Model>Create>Loft will always (if it works) create a solid object. It will require another loft or other feature to hollow it out.

[verygoldfish]

Well yeah that may work as there are many other ways to work around like I
went to patch workspace to do this instead and the loft tool there worked
fine but this still is a bug right? I don't remember I have seen loft tool
in model workspace behaves like this.

[verygoldfish]

No, I seriously doubt that... I may not use loft intensively but I know that it used to be able to loft hollow stuff cuz I tried to model some complex curvy hollow object with it before. There is no way loft only just creates a fully solid model like this, no way, it would be useless. As I can do that with other tools.

[chrisplyler · Accepted solution]

It isn't a bug. Despite your memory, Model>Create>Loft has always created a solid shape and required some other feature(s) to hollow it out as desired.

[verygoldfish]

Yep... you're right, I used loft -> shell. Loft has always created a solid
object. **** fusion, why haven't they given us the ability to do this.
Well, patch workspace actually does that but... Why not model workspace
also.

[chrisplyler]

Patch workspace doesn't loft PROFILES. It lofts sketch elements directly. So you can patch>Loft the inner and outer surfaces, but you still have to patch and stitch the ends to get a solid body.

Model workspace lofts profiles, and getting a hollow shape would technically require the engine to do both the inner and outer profiles in a single operation.

[chrisplyler]

And loft isn't useless. It's an extra step to hollow it out, sure. But loft can make some complex shapes that you just can't easily get with extrude, revolve, etc.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@verygoldfish wrote:
**** fusion, why haven't they given us the ability to do this.

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I would reserve Loft for complex geometry.

It works the same way in Inventor and SolidWorks.

Your geometry is a simple Revolve or an Extrude with Taper and requires only one sketch.