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Lofts in CAD Academic Resource Center
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Objectives
➲ After this quick tutorial you should understand how to do lofts in CAD drawings.
➲ This tutorial uses SolidWorks 2012 Student
Edition, but can be followed in AutoDesk
Inventor
➲ This tutorial assumes you know some basic CAD
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➲ State the desired goal
➲ Define the goal in more detail
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Next, we are going to have to make a 3D sketch plane above the top plane. Do this by clicking the 3D plane button.
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Development up to present
➲ Development made up to the current situation
➲ Important background information
➲ Original forecasts which turned out to be wrong
➲ Original forecasts which turned out to be true
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Potential Alternatives
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Now we're ready to do the loft. Make sure you don't have anything selected, and click the loft button
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Now let's get fancy.
We will create a guide curve for the lofted surface to be created along. The guide curve will be a 3D sketch, so select the 3D sketch button.
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WHY LOFTS!?
➲ You might ask. Lofts offer lots of versatilty that extrudes and revolves don't have. While they're harder to master, they allow us to make intricate shape and organic curves.
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Summary
➲ SolidWorks is proprietary software, but AutoDesk Inventor can be found for free on their website:
http://students.autodesk.com/
➲ Remember, CAD is a powerful tool but
REQUIRES PRACTICE.