Loft in not working to make a nose

Loft in not working to make a nose

matt_bolty
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Loft in not working to make a nose

matt_bolty
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I am following a tutorial on making a 3d model of a boeing 757. I have hit a bit of a snag which is driving me a little mad with lofting when making a nose cone. 

 

I have made the fuselage minus the nose cone and converted the body into a component. The tutorial deleted the original body and so did I - which may have been a big mistake! Because, when I projected the flat front of the fuselage from the body, it gave me a single curve with no points. But now I am re-doing the nose, I projected from the component and it has several points. And there seems to be no way of converting this into a single curve which in itself seems ridiculous!

 

When I try to loft, I click the three profiles as show in the photos and before I hit ok, I get no warnings and it does seem like it will work. But when I hit ok it throws the error: "1 Reference failures: Closed profiles can not be coplanar for a loft" and "compute failed". It used to work perfectly when the projected curve was one line but now it just won't. 

 

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

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jeff_strater
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If you can share the file here, it will be easier to help you.  But, a couple of strategies to consider:

  1. the nose (in fact, the whole plane) is symmetric along the length of the body.  Just model 1/2 and mirror it.
  2. use Loft to a Point (by selecting just one point for a profile), and set the type to tangent.  That's how I always model any kind of rounded "nose" shape.  You can add rail curves for better shape control

 


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matt_bolty
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here you go! I just don't understand why it worked when I projected off a body and not a component agh

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wersy
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Split the profile and use only the half.
You need also a rail.

 

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