Multiple Lofts

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pggood
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Multiple Lofts

Post by pggood »

I am attempting to add 4 lofts at 8mm to 48mm I have 8 seperate drawing and the first loft works but the subseqent ones are greyed out when I select visible the other issue is I get a strange message randomly D:/:/assembly2/icons/workBenchIcon.svg File does not exist
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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Have a look at where the sketches are...

It is not possible to loft to a sketch on the same plane....
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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A body is a single solid, you want to have four. Either use Pad as a BaseFeature - if all of this should be a single solid, or use a Draft array - if the lofts are separate solids.

My guess is, that the model is incomplete, and that you should have modeled all of this including what is now called Pad, in a single body.
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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So Im changing the Z access on the drawing from 40 to 7 and 48 saving the file and when I reopen it it has reverted to 40 !!!!
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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So Im changing the Z access on the drawing from 40 to 7 and 48 saving the file and when I reopen it it has reverted to 40 !!!!
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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So Im changing the Z access on the drawing from 40 to 7 and 48 saving the file and when I reopen it it has reverted to 40 !!!!
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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See where your sketches are.
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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You cannot change the Placement of an attached sketch. Change the AttachmentOffset instead.

Placing the sketches on the ShapeBinder will not help, you will still have multiple solids.

(Talking of "multiple": I will remove two of the three identical posts above, just to let you know.)
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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Makes a copy of Pad in the Bodysuit, not just BaseFeature
fai an additive Loft, and a linear patern
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Re: Multiple Lofts

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Btw, I tried an array and it appeared the pad holes were not on perfect mutiple centers.
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