Explore how to create a sketch-based geometry known as a loft in Fusion software, which involves creating two sketches and using the Loft tool. Learn the step-by-step process of initiating a new sketch, drawing the base, creating an offset plane, and sketching again to finally use the Loft tool to create the loft shape.
Key Insights
- The Loft tool in Fusion requires two sketches to work. The process starts with creating a new workspace and sketch, using the two-point rectangle tool to draw the base.
- The creation of an offset plane requires using the Construct drop-down menu. After creating the offset plane, a second sketch is made, this time creating a centre diameter circle.
- Once the two sketches, a rectangle and a circle, are created, the Loft tool is used to join these sketches together. Additional sketches can be added as a rail to create more complex loft shapes.
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Another sketch-based geometry in Fusion is called loft. Let's create a loft by going up to our Home tab and clicking New for a new workspace. If I pull down the Create tab, I'll notice that the loft requires two sketches to work.
So let's go ahead and start a new sketch by clicking the Create Sketch button. We will click on our ground plane and we'll draw our base sketch. We'll keep this one pretty simple to make sure it works.
We'll do a two-point rectangle tool. Click once and click a second time to create a rectangle. We'll click the Finish Sketch button and we go back to our 3D view.
Now we need a work plane up in the air. No problem, we know how to do that. Over under the Construct drop-down, we want the offset plane.
We'll click that. We will click our ground plane and drag this new offset plane up into the air and we'll click OK. Now we're ready to create our second sketch.
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We will go to the Create Sketch button, click on our offset plane up in the air, and this time we'll create a center diameter circle. We'll click somewhere, pull out our circle, and click a second time and do Finish Sketch. Now we'll notice that we have two sketches, a rectangle and a circle, but the circle is up high, up above the rectangle.
That's just what we need. Now we can go to the Create drop-down, click on Loft, and we'll pull this over here. We can click our profiles.
We'll hit the plus and we can click this Select tool. We'll click the rectangle first and then the plus again and the top circle. And there it is.
We have our two profiles. Now we can get crazier with the Loft tool. You can draw an additional sketch that's kind of a bend and add that as a rail.
But for now we're A-OK. We'll go ahead and click OK. And there is our beautiful loft shape infusion.
