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Loft surfaces

Loft surfaces - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Loft surfaces

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- [Instructor] To create a lofted shape, we need a curve at one end and we need another curve at the other end, and we have the option of having some guide curves in between. In fact we can have multiple individual shapes as we go through this loft, but I'm going to start with just the two. Right over here, we're continuing along with the same shape we were working on before. We've got this surface here, which is just a helper surface so I'm going to go ahead and just hide that for right now. You can see we've got a few different lines here, which we've created, so what I do need is the starting and ending shape. I don't want to create the entire loft here. I only want to create a section of this loft. What I'm going to do here is I'm going to click on this surface here or that face, start a sketch, and I'm going to go ahead and just convert this whole face. Convert Entities is going to bring everything in. And I only want…

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