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What is lofting? - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: Fusion 360 Essential Training
What is lofting?
- [Instructor] Extruding profiles is cool and all, but there are other tools that can create much more complex shapes than just extruding out a sketched profile. This is going to be a quick example of what a loft is, and in the following videos I'll show you specifically how to set this up. But I just want to show you what a loft is right now. I have three profiles here. Kind of see that they are aligned. I also have this little curly Q down here, which we'll get into in a later video, but I want to show you what a loft is. You go to Create, Loft. And right now I'm using the 2-11 Lofting Example if you want to follow along. But you select one profile. Another. And another. And click OK. And you turn off the sketches if you want. We now have a super complex shape that is a rectangle flowing to a circle through, let me turn these back on, a diamond in the center. And again, these are very resilient sort of things. You change one of the sketch objects and your loft will dynamically…
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Introduction to creating basic shapes5m 27s
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Fusion 360's environments3m 49s
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Environments: Designing4m 4s
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Environments: Showing2m 1s
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Environments: Making1m 57s
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User interface refresher2m 54s
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Let's create some primitives4m 56s
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An intro to sketching6m 25s
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Sketch dimensions explained5m 48s
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Extruding profiles to create objects3m 40s
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What is lofting?1m 40s
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Setting up your Loft profiles3m 6s
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Lofting and controlling tangency2m 17s
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Adding loft guide rails5m
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What are Sweeps?3m 13s
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Fusion 360 can sculpt?9m 16s
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What is surface modeling?7m 25s
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