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Lofting surfaces

Lofting surfaces - Rhino for Mac Tutorial

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Lofting surfaces

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- Now, let's take a look at creating surfaces with the Loft command in Rhino 5 for Mac. Here, we've got a few example sets of curves that will be used to loft. So, Loft creates a surface that fits through a series of two or more profile curves so we always need at least two curves or surface edges to make a loft. And we can access Loft under the Surface menu or through the surface icon or just by typing loft into the command line. So, let's try a simple loft between these two closed curves. I'll go ahead and maximize Perspective to get a closer look. And zoom in a little bit. And we'll bring up the Loft command, so, Surface, Loft. So, Rhino's prompting me to select the curves to loft. So, I'll click this like one and select the other. And in this case, we only have two profile curves. So, it doesn't matter what order I select them in. When we get to the other examples with more curves, the order actually does become important. I'll go ahead and click Done and now, Rhino's asking me to…

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