Loft between two objects

[andrewrichardjones]

I'd really appreciate some help understanding how to form a loft between these two objects. As you can tell they were originally .stl files imported as meshes and then cut up. I get a range of obtuse error messages but cannot find any combination of options that allows the loft to work. I must be missing something...but what?

It's an adapter between a Dyson vacuum cleaner and a Bosch sander (hopefully that makes it obvious how the loft should join the two objects).

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It is a bit tricky because you have to renew the contours of the oval.
Watch the screencast and the timeline.

günther

[jeff_strater]

a couple of issues here:

1. Loft does not do hollow regions.  You will have to do this in two lofts (the entire outer region as a Join, plus the inner region as a Cut)
2. This model came from a mesh.  The shapes are simple enough that I would use Create Mesh Section to re-design them using native Fusion features.  The problem is that Loft will have to map all those points on the one side to points on the other, and will likely get them wrong.  Fewer points will make this easier to deal with.

[andrewrichardjones]

Ok, so it's the sheer number of points (resulting from the .stl import) that complicates matters. I notice in the screencast above that the approach is to trace the two end faces to loft between the two much simpler shapes.

[andrewrichardjones]

Thanks very much for the screencap. I think I now understand your approach. Making a sketch of the two end faces in Fusion objects (rather than the more complex mesh of imported points) and then applying a loft between the simpler shapes. Thanks for taking the time, I'm determined to follow along and replicate your method!

[andrewrichardjones]

Thanks, it's taken most of the weekend but I've finally, finally, finally worked it out thanks to your screencast! Wow, making lofts could be SO much simpler if they worked on hollow objects!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

really well done!

günther