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Refining a lofted shape with guide curves

Refining a lofted shape with guide curves - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Refining a lofted shape with guide curves

- [Speaker] As you can see from the first loft movie that the loft command is pretty powerful but you need a little bit of work to set it up. In this example here, I've got a few different planes and I have a bunch of different sketches that are defining this shape here. So you can pretty much see that I've kind of created a wire frame so I've got a straight line here in the back that kind of connects that back corner, I got a couple profiles out here on the outside and I got couple just points here at the end to create a shape. So what we're going to do is create a loft, come up here to Lofted Boss/Base, my profiles. So I'm going to start here with the profiles from this little tree here so my starting point here is right there and I want to make that go to that profile right there. So if I choose that profile, you can see I get kind of like a little cone shape here. So it follows this outside profile but it doesn't follow these other profiles and then I want to end over here. So now…

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