Again I am stuck... I am trying to create a loft that should follow two rails (both splines) to a point where the splines meet.
While I can select one of the rails, as soon as I select the other rail, the loft fails.
I want to select the lower spline as rail too, but as said that fails.
Any help will be appreciated
(Btw: I did check the other posts for this topic -and there are several- but did not find an answer)
The "+" sign" certainly helps, but what @g-andresen pointed out in his screencast is going to be quite the problem as you proceed in your lofting efforts. Given the fragile sketching, you just got lucky this time 😉
You actually created the sketches in reverse order of what is a better technique. You first created a profile and because there are no rails yet, the endpoints of that profile are completely unconstrained.
Then you created one rail and used the spline fit-point to connect that to one of the rails. The problem with that is that you'd need a fit point for each rail connection, which is not ideal as it might increase the number of fit points beyond what is needed for a spline resulting in bad curvature.
It would actually be better to first create the two rails and then start the sketch for the profile. THen, as Guenter has shown in his screencast, you use the sketch->project->intersect tool to get the points where the rails intersect or pierce through the sketch plane. Then you can create a spline/profile between these two points.
