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Use lofts to make a flowing grip

Use lofts to make a flowing grip - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Use lofts to make a flowing grip

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- [Instructor] This was how we previously left our controller model. We've got this rectangular block in the middle, and then we've got these three ellipses that we're going to use to create the loft. To actually make the loft is fairly simple. All we have to do is go to the features tab and then choose Lofted Boss/Base. Make sure you're in this profiles box here on the top left. And then just select each profile one by one. And when selecting profiles for a loft, a good tip is to always try and click on roughly the same position on each profile. So I'm going to select this right-hand point and the same one on here. You see, we start to get that preview and then the right-hand point on the final sketch as well. See, we've got a nice, smooth preview there. If I just clear these selections and I show you the alternative. If we select the right hand one here and then the left hand one, you can see immediately we've got…

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