I am using Inventor Professional 2019 on a Mac running Windows 10 in VMware. For some reason I do not seem able to change sections (or rails) after a loft feature has been created. Once the loft has been made I cannot re-select the chosen area in a sketch, nor can I delete a section and replace it with a section from another sketch etc....none of the usual shift+click or select+delete actions seem to work. All I can do is select a section (i.e. making it turn blue by clicking on it), but then there seems no key/click combination that would affect any action on it.
Deleting the loft and redoing it seems to be the only option to make a change. That of course is problematic once other features have been created based on the loft...
Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Hello, could you attach your file here?
Sergio Daniel Suarez
Mechanical Designer
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Hi! Like Sergio mentioned here, please attach the file so forum experts can take a look. I guess you are probably trying to pick sections or rails created after the Loft. Inventor is a feature-based and history-based parametric solid modeler. There is parent-child relationship among the objects. A parent feature cannot utilize any object created afterwards. You can reorder the sketches or the Loft so that the sketches are before the Loft.
Many thanks!
It's a bit different in the Loft dialog. You select the profile(s) or guide rail(s) that you want to get rid of, then hit the Delete key. Then Click to add and select a different one. You can drag to change the order of profiles or guide rails, too.
None of this stuff makes sense in the Extrusion tool, which is why the dialogs are different, I suppose.
Sam B
Inventor Pro 2020.0.1 | Windows 7 SP1
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Hi! I think there might be some usability issue or misunderstanding. It would be great if you can share an example here so forum experts can take a look.
Many thanks!
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