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Difficulty Lofting with Guides
ethan_khosh305
Member Posts: 6 ✭
Hello!
I'm trying to loft the following cross-section to a point:
I want to loft along the curved guide lines that lead from the vertices of the cross section to the top point. However, when I try to add those guides into the loft, I get the following error:
I believe it's having a tough time reconciling the guide and the end vertex. I'm trying to create a shape that maintains the star cross-section the whole way through, but pulls out to a point with the same curvature as the identical perpendicular sketches. If I add multiple edges to the guides, no preview whatsoever appears.
If anyone has advice to fix the loft error or other ways to get this shape, that would be great.
Answers
you may have to play with start and end conditions and magnitudes. If you can share a link to the document others could give it a whirl and let you know if how they would do it. Also for something repetitive like that I'd consider doing 1/4 of it and circular pattern it. if it can't be done with a full bottom sketch profile you might need to do it one surface at a time… which makes even more of a caste for circular pattern.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. In the meantime, I've attached a link.
Here is a link to my document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ddb4931800ab4cc6ca281f2b/w/a1aad1ebaee893ef456107f5/e/f9bc1b494025e7d23c4778d3?renderMode=0&uiState=6810dbade924be19c1175517
Probably easiest to use fill surface and a couple of mirror features.