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Start with a predictable two-section body.
- Create two offset planes and draw one closed profile on each.
- Choose Loft and click the profiles in Start-to-End order.
- Inspect the colored section markers and correspondence lines.
- Create the body, edit one source profile and confirm the Loft rebuilds.
- Repeat with endpoint tangency or one valid side guide.
01 · ORDERED PROFILES
Choose two to twelve sections
Each Loft section must be one visible closed sketch face on a distinct ordered plane. Click the profiles from Start to End. Use reverse order when the complete stack is correct but its direction is backwards.
02 · CORRESPONDENCE
Read the seams before committing
Matching low-complexity polygons retain exact corner-to-corner stations. Mixed or curved profiles use even arc-length sampling from a common positive local-X seam. Adjust a section's normalized seam only when the visible correspondence lines show an unwanted twist.
A valid-looking silhouette is not enough. Resolve crossing, collapse and opposing-correspondence diagnostics before creating the body.
03 · END CONDITIONS
Control how the surface leaves and enters
Start and End can independently use plane-normal tangency with a 10–100% influence. This makes the surface leave or enter perpendicular to the endpoint plane while the intermediate sections continue to control the body.
04 · GUIDE RAILS
Drive intermediate curvature
Turn on Use guide rails, choose the guide's sketch plane, then select up to eight existing open Line, Arc, Spline or connected mixed chains. Every enabled rail must touch and cross every ordered Loft section once. Valid guide intersections become authoritative and disable manual seam adjustments.
CURRENT SCOPE
Guarded solid creation
- Loft creates an associative New Body from two to twelve ordered sections
- Every guide must intersect every section once and remain consistently ordered
- Unsafe crossings, collapse and unresolved correspondence block creation
- Shelling a Loft and general Loft Boolean operations require a later solid kernel
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