From the course: Inventor 2016 Essential Training
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Creating complex shapes with the loft tool - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Inventor 2016 Essential Training
Creating complex shapes with the loft tool
- [Voiceover] We're now ready to look at one of the more powerful part modeling features, and that's the Loft command. On the screen, you can see a bottle I've created, and we're going to recreate that using the Loft command. And at this point, we're also going to include a lot of the other things we've learned up to this point in the course such as creating different sketches and work features. To begin, we're gonna need a new part file. I have one opened down at the bottom of the screen. If you don't have one, go ahead and start a new part file. And we'll begin by creating a new sketch. We'll right-click and select New Sketch, and we'll select the XZ Plane to sketch on. To begin, we're gonna need to create an elliptical shape to make the base of the bottle. To do that, we can go to the Sketch tab under the Create panel and select the arrow underneath Circle, which will expose the other options, one of which is Ellipse here at the bottom. We'll go ahead and left-click on the center…
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Part feature introduction6m 11s
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Creating a base extrusion feature10m 30s
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Creating an extrusion to the next face5m 35s
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Creating revolves10m 11s
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Creating complex shapes with the loft tool8m 48s
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Adding control to a loft by creating rails9m
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Creating a sweep feature5m 28s
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Creating a sweep feature with model edges2m 28s
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