"Centerline cannot be tangent to profiles!" while lofting between three profiles

"Centerline cannot be tangent to profiles!" while lofting between three profiles

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"Centerline cannot be tangent to profiles!" while lofting between three profiles

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 I initially did loft with only the top and base airfoils with one sides of the coil as the center line, but the shape turned out incorrectly: the middle section of the blade was smaller than both the top and bottom ones. So I decided to do add an profile in the middle. But, as you can see, while I was trying to loft between these three profiles , Fusion 360 gave me this error "Centerline cannot be tangent to profiles!". What is the problem here? Is there any other way to do this. 

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laughingcreek
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That error message is sometimes AD speak for "somethings wrong, but I don't want to tell you what"

 

In general, I would suggest making your profiles normal to the centerline rail.  You can do that by creating a "plane along path" and putting your sketch on that instead of the offset planes your using.

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Anonymous
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Thanks for replying, but I'm still getting the same error after I created the plane along the path and rotated the profiles.

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StephenCim-001
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Does this work for you?  I moved the bottom profile so it was coincident with the edge, then used a sweep with twist angle 

 

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Anonymous
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This works perfectly! I didn't even know that there was a sweep with twist option. Thank you very much!

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