Extending a loft beyond end profiles?

Extending a loft beyond end profiles?

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Extending a loft beyond end profiles?

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Is it possible to extend a simple loft beyond its two end profiles? In the attached image, I'm starting to design a guitar neck. I have a loft between the first and twelfth fret of the neck. The curves for those end profiles are splines that I made by tracing images of physical cross sections from a neck. What I'd like to do is extend the loft so that it meets the two planes on the image, even though I don't have neck cross sections avaiable at those planes. They represent the two ends of the simple part of the neck, before it starts transitioning into the heel of the neck at one end and the headstock at the other end.

 

Is there a way to do this easily? 

 

 

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Simon.Hern
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Hi @mcollas.

If you make the loft in the Patch environment (so it is a surface rather than a solid) then you should be able to extend it at either end by using the Extend tool under the Modify menu.  Just select an edge (hold Ctrl for multiple edges) and drag.

Simon

 

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Anonymous
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Thanks Simon, that's exactly what was needed. I lofted then extended in the Patch environment using the 'natural' direction, then patched the ends and stitched it back into a solid body.

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LarsRey
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Simon.Hern
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@LarsRey wrote:

I'm in the same situation but can't find the patch environment. Where is it located?

 


It's now the "Surface" tab (between "Solid" and "Mesh") in the "Design" environment.

 

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