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Create tools: Sketch-based loft and sweep

Create tools: Sketch-based loft and sweep

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Create tools: Sketch-based loft and sweep

- [Instructor] Let's discover the Loft command. Basically, a Loft creates a transitional shape between two or more Sketch Profiles or planer faces. Let's create the Sketch. I'm going to hit R for rectangle and select our XZ plane, left-click, and on the Feature Options, I'm going to select center rectangle, let's place our center point at the origin, left-click. The active dimension right now is our horizontal dimension. I'm going to key in 50, hit Enter. Next I'm going to select this horizontal line and this vertical line, Control + left-click, right-click and select Equal. Our profile is now fully constrained. Next, let's select Stop Sketch, go to Home View, zoom out, head to Construct, and select Offset Plane, selecting this Sketch Profile. I'm going to pull this blue arrow up and key in 50, hitting Enter. Next, I'm going to select our newly created plane, left-click, right-click and select Create Sketch. Heading to Sketch, and let's select a Polygon, Circumscribed Polygon. We'll…

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