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Loft thins out
MDesign
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What causes this behavior? I have a loft of a tube tapering from 5" to 3" using the thin functionality. but it gets skinny in the middle for some reason. It's following a 3D spline that's been edited with the Edit curve functionality if it matters.
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I think I resolved this issue. by splitting the circle profiles at both ends into 3 segments each.
Previewing with Isolines for the loft probably would have helped show the twisting that was likely happening in the first case.
I've been messing with it all afternoon. not too long ago I figured out it was twisting and had to define connections. wasn't expecting a circle to have twisting action.
@MDesign Have you tried the path option for the loft feature?
Yep. that's how that loft was created. For whatever reason it was rotating the circle profile along the path and I had to use connections to get it close.
@MDesign Can you share your example as public? I tried to recreate your issue by splitting the first profile into several sections but was able to create the loft without connections. If you pick the face of the sketch and not the individual edges what happens?
Same result as before for the loft
Sure. here is the twisted one…TWISTED TUBE
Here is a version that I split the profile… LESS TWISTED