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Add control to a loft by Create rails

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Add control to a loft by Create rails

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- [Voiceover] In the previous movie we learned how to create the shape you see on the screen, and we also looked at the Conditions tab in the Loft tool in order to learn how to control the flow of the 3D shape through the profiles. And that might work for a lot of cases, but when you really want to have full complete control over the shape of your 3D model through the profiles, the only way is with rails and that's what we're going to create here. What we're going to do is we're going to start by deleting this loft. If we go to the browser and right click on Loft, we can select Delete. In the Delete Features dialog, if we were to simply hit OK, we would delete this Loft and everything related to it. However, if we uncheck this checkbox consumed sketches and features, and then click OK, all of the geometry that was used to create the feature remains, even though the feature has been deleted. Now we need a sketch that will hold our rails. We'll go ahead and right click and select New…

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