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Loft tool

Loft tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Loft tool

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- [Instructor] The SOLIDWORKS Loft feature is definitely one of the more powerful tools inside of the SOLIDWORKS arsenal. The first thing I need to do is to create two or more sketches that we're going to loft between. So you can see here I have already one sketch and I need to create another sketch up above this. So to do that, let's go head up to Reference Geometry and create a plane. As far as my first reference, I'm going to go ahead and choose something that's directly above this top plane here. I can just drag that up if I'd like to by clicking on the arrow or type in a value here. So type in, let's say, 2.0. It's going to go ahead and push that plane directly up above there by two inches. And go ahead and click on OK. Now, on that plane, let's go ahead and start a brand new sketch. And I'm going to go ahead and draw a center rectangle right there at the origin and kind of just drag it out. The exact size doesn't really matter, but I want to get something that's going to look…

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