Announcements
Autodesk Community will be read-only between April 26 and April 27 as we complete essential maintenance. We will remove this banner once completed. Thanks for your understanding

Bug Report: Surface loft ignores some rails and behaves oddly when starting from a point

OceanHydroAU
Collaborator

Bug Report: Surface loft ignores some rails and behaves oddly when starting from a point

OceanHydroAU
Collaborator
Collaborator

See screencast - basically - even though the selected rail turns blue and the preview changes shape (albeit wrongly), the rail I select doesn't show up in the list of selected rails (plus it doesn't work right).

 

This works fine when starting from a spline shape, but fails when starting from a point.

 

Demo sketch is here: https://a360.co/3owjhsz

Screencast: https://autode.sk/2VQQJh5

 

Screen Shot 2020-12-08 at 7.19.51 pm.png

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
0 Likes
Reply
Accepted solutions (1)
317 Views
3 Replies
Replies (3)

jean.flower
Alumni
Alumni
Accepted solution

Hi OceanHydroAU

Thanks for posting the screencast and the link to the model - it made it easy for me to work out what's happening and how to get the result you need. 

The solution : after setting up the first rail, click on the + to start adding the second rail and then proceed to select that second sketch curve.

The explanation : Sometimes rails need to be made from multiple curves, so the loft dialog allows you to build a rail using several curves which can be strung together into one rail.  You wanted two rails, but with the selections you made, Fusion is only understanding that you want one.  To get the result you want, you need to make sure the loft dialog understands when the first rail is done and the second rail selection begins.
loft to point.png
Hope that makes sense!

Jean

 

 




Jean Flower
Product Manager
Autodesk, Inc.


0 Likes

OceanHydroAU
Collaborator
Collaborator

Hi Jean - thanks for that rapid response (and sorry for wasting your time!).  It's awesome to know how quickly our reports get looked into as well 🙂

0 Likes

jean.flower
Alumni
Alumni

No problem, glad I could help.




Jean Flower
Product Manager
Autodesk, Inc.


0 Likes