Lofting from a sketch with a hole

Lofting from a sketch with a hole

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Lofting from a sketch with a hole

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Hi,

 

I'm trying to make a semi-circle stereographic projection cover but am running into some trouble with the Loft function. The overall goal is to project a pattern from a plane to a point (pictured below) and having that projection cut away from a semi-circle shell, so lofting appears to be the best tool for the job.

 

This is what the pattern looks like, in the following screen captures I only use a small section of it so as to not clutter the screen:

pattern14.jpg

 

When I select a simple "hole" in the pattern and use Loft in it's "cut" mode, everything works fine:

 

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f2.JPG

 

But when I try to select the area of the sketch I want to "keep" and try to use the "intersect" mode, it acts as though only the outline of the sketch has been selected and ignores the holes:

 

f3.JPG

 

f5.JPG

 

Is there a set of parameters in the Loft function that allows the lofting of a sketch with holes in it? Or a function other than loft that's more suited to this kind of work? Lofting each hole individually is an option but will be super time consuming.

 

Thanks,

Sunil

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davebYYPCU
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Fusion Loft, can not Loft hollow profiles in one go.  It takes two Lofts for the result.

 

1 You Loft the outline - Solid

2 You Loft the Cut from the solid.  

 

In your case case you have the solid, so each window will be its own Loft.

 

Might help...