Pattern a loft?
Pattern a loft?
(OP)
Is it possible to make a circular pattern of a loft? I'm trying to pattern a bracket I made with the loft function around a cylinder, but I get the following error:
"Unable to create contour geometry. Please check the loft section."
What part of the loft section am I suppose to check?
"Unable to create contour geometry. Please check the loft section."
What part of the loft section am I suppose to check?






RE: Pattern a loft?
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RE: Pattern a loft?
I'm not totally familiar with your terminology. Are you talking about an assembly as opposed to a part, or a part with seperate bodies?
I "grew up" with SW 2001, where you couldn't have seperate bodies in a part, so SW 2003 was a big change for me. How do I go about seperating a loft, whose shape is dependant on the other two bodies?
RE: Pattern a loft?
I assume you are creating a loft from a sketch shape on the circumfernce of a cylinder and are lofting to another sketch shape a distance away from the cylinder.
To create your loft, select the two sketches, & in the options section of the loft dialogue box, deselect the "Merge" option. That will create the separate body. Then simply do a circular pattern using the cylinder axis & the lofted body.
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Hears another question. How do the parent/child relationships work when you are dealing with multiple bodies. When I first tried seperating the loft from the other bodies, I kept getting 1 of 2 error messages:
"blah blah blah...zero geometry"
or
"loft failed"
I got it to work, but I'm not sure how or why.
RE: Pattern a loft?
How are you creating your sketches, especially the one on the cylinder. I created mine within a 3D sketch using the edges of a rectangular hole in the cylinder & a simple elipse drawn on an offset plane.
BTW: I also did the above model without using multi-bodies & without any problems or errors. I just created the loft with Merge selected, then circular-patterned the loft feature.
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RE: Pattern a loft?
There should be no twists...and don't see any in the preview either. I am using a curve/straight line as a guide.
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