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Loft tool

Loft tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Loft tool

- The loft command is one of the most powerful commands inside of SOLIDWORKS but it does take a little bit more effort to get started using this command. The first thing I need to do is to find a bunch of different sketches that I can use to create the shape. Right now on my screen you can see I've got one little rectangle. Now, what I need to do is create another sketch on another plane. I want that plane to be directly above the top plane that I already have. I'm going to go up to Features, and create Reference Geometry, and go on ahead and get a Plane, and put that directly up above my top plane. There it is. The distance doesn't matter but I just want to place it about three inches up above. Click on OK and now I have a place to draw my second sketch. Click on that plane, click on Start a sketch, and I'm going to click on Make normal too. All right, this time I'm going to draw another rectangle, click and just drag it out. It doesn't really matter the shape. Just create another…

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