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Lofting to a point
billy2
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Onshape's manual says a loft can handle a point as a loft section.
Region to point loft:
I don't know how useful this is unless you design toothpicks.
Moving the point to a sketch that's parallel to the loft direction has interesting effects:
Changing the end condition for the loft and adding an end condition, tangent to the sketch plane (profile), causes the loft to terminate nicely:
Using a point & it's sketch plane to terminate a loft:
Lofting a wing or a ship's hull is fairly straight forward. Terminating a loft isn't as easy.
Considering a point's sketch orientation makes lofting to a point more useful and can be used to terminate a loft.
Region to point loft:
I don't know how useful this is unless you design toothpicks.
Moving the point to a sketch that's parallel to the loft direction has interesting effects:
Changing the end condition for the loft and adding an end condition, tangent to the sketch plane (profile), causes the loft to terminate nicely:
Using a point & it's sketch plane to terminate a loft:
Lofting a wing or a ship's hull is fairly straight forward. Terminating a loft isn't as easy.
Considering a point's sketch orientation makes lofting to a point more useful and can be used to terminate a loft.
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