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Lofted shapes with guide curves

Lofted shapes with guide curves - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Lofted shapes with guide curves

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- [Instructor] Creating lofts can be a complicated process and in this video, I want to show you how we can create a fairly complex shape using those guide curves. So, to lay out what I have here, is I've got a starting plane here. On that plane, I have just a point, so here's my point, which is the starting point, which is right there. I've got this profile on the center, I've got an ending point, which again, is just a point. I've got a lower guide and I've got an upper guide and then I've got the original profile down here, which is defining the shape. So, you can start from a point if you want to, which will create a cone any time you're doing a loft. To create this feature, we need to go up here to Features and come over here to Loft. All right, my profiles, I want to choose them in order, it's very important to choose things in order. I'ma go over here to the twirl down and I want to click on the starting point.…

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