Wow... I have been rapidly losing brain cells trying to get my lofts to look how I want them. This will definitely be reducing the rate of loss significantly!! Thanks so much for the great info and presentation!
Great video! One more tip, if you are lofting surfaces, dragging the endpoint/connector can reduce the end surface profile to a size you want. For example if you know you want to loft between two curves on a complex shape, but in the end you may want to do a boundary fill between sections, you can move the endpoints around limiting the end result while still driving the tangency/curvature continuity.
I Did not know about the "Show All Connectors" and "Edit Connectors" functions inside the Loft Feature. Whenever I'd run into Loft issues of this nature I would end up rolling back and making a 3D sketch with straight lines defining where I wanted the loft to go and use them as "Guide Curves" to constrain the Loft into the shape I wanted. This was not always successful. The Edit Connectors seems like a much simpler solution to this method. Additionally, sometimes I would run into the "Unequal Sketch Entities" error as well and would end up making say... 3 Lofts, instead of using one of these shown methods and making it out of a single one. So thanks for this informative video!
I make a lot of two-profile lofts to simulate bent wire routing in wire harnesses. After picking the two profiles, I need to have the following settings as default: - Start/End Constraints -Start constraint: -Normal To Profile -End constraint: -Normal To Profile - Options - Un-check Merge result If I could have these default settings active every time I start SolidWorks it would save me a ton of time!
I was looking for lofted feature to model drop-in T nut.i tried several times to create a perfect curve with loft but failed to come out with one.thank you so much will try with the features mentioned in the video.
