Two lofts from the same point

peter_pawlak

I need an "ah-ha" moment. Im making a splitter pipe and want to make two lofts originating from the same extrude face. Basically make the left look like the loft on the right. Seems very simple but i cant select the same extrude face. Am i using the wrong loft parameters in loft one that is causing this?

eric_pesty

I think your issue is that you are using "add" for loft1 so the face you lofted from doesn't exit anymore!
Switch your first loft to "new" and it should solve your problem.

Or better yet, just mirror your part after creating loft1!

The_M100

Could a Mirror work?

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

Last time I ran into this the loft needed connection guides to prevent the circles from attempting to self intersect in an infinitely tight hourglass. Moving the circle from left to right would trick the implicit connections into working. Circle lofts can be a little indeterminate, and it's probably due to how the circle feature works at the sketch level if I'm reading into the tea leaves real close.

MDesign

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/121382#Comment_121382

No programmer here but a single connection definition usually resolves the twist. If I had to guess it might related to how the circle is made in the sketch and/or which way the normal is for the sketch plane.

eric_pesty

I think your issue is that you are using "add" for loft1 so the face you lofted from doesn't exit anymore!
Switch your first loft to "new" and it should solve your problem.

Or better yet, just mirror your part after creating loft1!

peter_pawlak

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/121385#Comment_121385

Ok mirror worked perfectly in this case. Thanks!