Can sweeps be made with lofts?

Auke_Smit_SIL

out of curiosity. 

A loft with 2 same profiles and a path look a lot like the sweep function. 

Is it basically the same and is the sweep feature nice UX, or are there fundamental advantages to use a sweep instead of loft besides easy acces.

If it is the same thing, it migh be interesting to integrate the sweep inside the loft. Making a loft but only selecting 1 profile and a path, similar as sweep.

Jake_Rosenfeld

Sweep also guarantees that the cross section of the created part along the given path is constant.  Loft does not make this guarantee, and can be very different based on the options selected in the feature.

Konstantin_Sh

Sweep behaves like loft through a number of cross sections transformed along the path, from this point Loft is a more general operation, but sweep can have have some specific profile orientation settings which would look strange if you find them inside Loft.

Jake_Rosenfeld

Sweep also guarantees that the cross section of the created part along the given path is constant.  Loft does not make this guarantee, and can be very different based on the options selected in the feature.

Auke_Smit_SIL

I checked more carefully and If I measure the distance to the body you can see in the picture, the sweep gives a 2mm dimension, since it is an sketch offset. But the loft is at 1,6something mm. so definitely some warping going on.