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Lofting and controlling tangency - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Lofting and controlling tangency

- [Instructor] In this video, I'm using the sample file for two dash 11. Where we've just gone in and created a loft between the three. Now, before clicking OK, notice that there are hard edges that we fileted in the last video. But these edges are what are called tangency handles. You can actually drag them around to create different effects. If you rotate to the rectangle at the top, you see that these are at the corners, you can actually drag these to the middle. Now notice that I dragged this and it's kind of snapping. And sometimes it doesn't allow you to select the correct direction, it goes the wrong way. If you go way outside while you're click dragging, it makes it a lot easier to move these. So I'm going to move this one, a 1/2 turn around. And this one, a 1/2 turn around. And I'm just going to do that for all four corners and move them a 1/2, to the midpoint essentially. And click OK. What that did, is it made our loft have much more of a rounded, twisted profile. The loft just goes straight from one profile to the next. But those tangency handles can give us this nice like twist, taper in it. So when we do further operations, we see that this has the aesthetic of a twist inside of it instead of just a straight connection. You can always double click on the loft to go back. You can change the handles at the center. So if I twist these in an opposite direction, that creates different effect. You can always twist these in a way that will make the loft not work, like I just did right here. So you may have to go back a little bit and see your result. You may have some problems for something like this. Let me just turn off the sketches. The loft is a valid, solid model, as you can see. But we have a lot of pinching right there. So you have to be careful about playing with those tangency handles too much. But you can create some very nice effects with lofting and tangency.

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