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Complex shapes with the Loft tool

Complex shapes with the Loft tool - Inventor Tutorial

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Complex shapes with the Loft tool

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- [Instructor] We're now ready to look at one of the more powerful part modeling features, and that's the loft command. On the screen, you can see a bottle I've created, and we're going to recreate that using the loft command, and at this point we're also going to include a lot of the other things we've learned up to this point in the course, such as creating different sketches and work features. To begin, we're going to need a new part file. I have one opened down at the bottom of the screen. If you don't have one, go ahead and start a new part file, and we'll begin by creating a new sketch. We'll right click and select new sketch, and we'll select the x, z plane to sketch on. To being, we're going to need to create an elliptical shape to make the base of the bottle. To do that, we can go to the sketch tab under the create panel, and select the arrow underneath circle, which will expose the other options, one of which is ellipse, here at the bottom. We'll go ahead and left click on…

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