From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2020 Essential Training
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Complex shapes with the Loft tool - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2020 Essential Training
Complex shapes with the Loft tool
we're going to look at is the loft feature. Earlier in this course, you saw me create a loft when I was talking about work planes because work planes control the cross-sections that are used in lofts. On the screen is the bottle we're going to create, but we're going to start from a blank part file. If you don't have one open, go ahead and open one. and I'm going to start by right clicking in the graphics window and selecting new sketch. Now from the origin geometry, we'll go ahead and select the XZ plane this time and we'll zoom out with our wheel a little bit and we're ready to create our first ellipse. To do that, we can go to the sketch tab under the create panel and normally this is a circle and Inventor remembers the last thing you used and that was ellipse for me, but if you click the dropdown below that, you can see all the options that are available. Go ahead and select ellipse and then we'll go ahead and left click on the center point and as we drag, you'll see a center line…
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