LOFT command
Creates 3D solids or 3D surfaces.
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Description
Creates 3D solids or 3D surfaces passing through 2 selected cross sections.
Options
- Mode
- Determines if the resulting loft is a solid or a surface.
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- Solid
- Creates lofts as solid.
- Surface
- Creates lofts as surfaces.
- Guides
- Uses both cross-sections and guide lines between the selected cross sections to create the loft.
- Path
- Specify the path curve.
- Cross sections only
- Uses only cross section entities to create the loft, and no guides.
- Settings
- Sets variables that affect how the loft is constructed.
- Ruled
- Draws straight surfaces between the cross sections, features sharp edges at each cross-section.
- Smooth fit
- Draws smooth surfaces between the cross sections.
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- Normal to
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Draws surfaces normal to the chosen cross sections. Select one of the options to become one of the following results:
- Start
- Both
- End
- All
- Draft angles
- Specifies the angles at the starting and ending cross-sections to modify the loft shape.
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Note: The angle option specifies the angle at which the loft starts from a cross section. The magnitude option sets the relative distance of the surface from the cross section in the direction of the draft angle before surface starts to bend towards next section.
