Surface Loft: Selecting, chaining edges to create profiles

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm designing a bottle opener with nicely transitioning surfaces. I'm trying to create a surface loft between two surface edges, so that these two surfaces transition continously. This is what I'm looking at...I'm trying to loft the two long edges together:

However, each edge of the surface breaks up into mutiple segments when selected. I need to be able to select all of those pieces and link them as a chain to create 1 profile. Currently, I select 1 segment as it turns into 1 profile, so each segment gets a profile in the loft.

I learned to de-select "chain selection' since this would select the entire perimeter of the surface, which is even worse. 

I've also tried creating a selection set, but this again breaks up the chain into many small selections. This is basically a selection question...would be no problem in Solidworks with the selection manager.

Thanks

[jeff_strater]

Can you share your model here?  This should definitely work - you should be able to chain together more than one edge into a single profile.

Jeff

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

OK, I think I understand the problem.  With chaining off, you need to hold down CTRL (CMD on a Mac) to get the selections to add to the current profile.

Here is a quick screencast showing how I did it:

Hope this helps,

Jeff

[Anonymous]

OK, I got it. This works with CMD on the mac. Seems like a pretty strange selection process, since you'd like SHIFT would do this. But anyways, today I learned. Thank you

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

I'm new to Fusion 360, for some reason this approach does not work for me. The software won't allow me to select edges, only faces. I can select edges in the "rails" section of the loft tool, but not in the profiles section. 

Is it not possible to loft between a sketch and a 3D object?

Any help is appreciated, 

Jo

[davebYYPCU]

You are in Model mode with that screenshot, loft is looking for a closed and shaded profile.

Change to Patch > Loft and those two profiles should complete with a surface loft.

Might help....

[Anonymous]

I have the same problem but this solution doesn't work for me.

[Anonymous]

I was having the same problem, but I realized that the edges that the edges I wanted to chain together were not part of the same surface Body. After "Stitch"ing the surface elements together I was able to selectively chain the edges that I wanted using the ctrl key as described above.