Loft question

[brentpotts99]

Hello,

To start, the screengrab isn't from Fusion, but from Blender. It illustrates the question I'm asking though. 

I had a scenario (in Fusion) where I performed a loft to close off a hole, like what you see in the picture, from the faces highlighted.  It seemed to work, but I'm wondering, does doing it this way produce any hidden faces? 

While the function closed the hole from the two opposite sides, does it automatically merge the entire perimeter (all 4 sides)? 

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

If you are in the Model workspace, yes it does close the hole without creating hidden faces.

Instead of lofting, you could also just have highlighted the 4 interior faces and deleted them. Fusion 360 would have automatically healed this back into a solid.

[davebYYPCU]

You can check the result with Inspect > Section Analysis

It should be two bodies if you set New Body, and a single plate if you used Join in the operation, but that would require exact geometry.

Might help...