Now select the guides option from the command line and select both splines from the geometry. Start loft command and select the three circles in the lofting order from bottom to the top and press enter. In this case we have two splines passing through the quadrants of the three circles which are placed on different but parallel planes. In this example, I will tell you about controlling the geometry with more precision using guides. In the previous example, we have selected a path for making our 3D geometry. The final lofted 3D geometry will look like this. You will notice that the 3D geometry will change to take the shape of the path which you have selected. Select path from the options of the command line and select the spline which is passing through the center of the circles. Once you have selected all the circles’ press enter and you will see a preview of loft shown in the image below. Once again select loft tool and select the circles starting from the circle on the horizontal plane and select them in linear order. In this example, we have many circles along different planes and we have a spline passing through all the circles as shown in the image below. The shape of the 3D loft is decided by the geometries which you select in a lofting order but can add Guides and Path to control the 3D geometry with more precision. The resulting shape will be like the one as shown in the image below.Īs you noticed, in both cases the LOFT command followed the order in which you click on the objects to make the 3D shape and hence you need to ensure proper lofting order for making the geometry. This time I will change the lofting order.Ĭlick on the circle at the bottom of the geometry then the circle on the top and finally click on the square at the center of the three geometries. Press CTRL+Z a couple of times to get back to the previous 2D drawing and once again select the LOFT command. This will make geometry as shown in the image below.
In the first case, I will select the circle on the bottom followed by the square in the middle and then finally circle on the top and then press enter twice. The selection of lofting order decides the final geometry and using the same set of geometries you can make different 3D shapes by simply altering lofting order. To convert it into 3D, select the LOFT command and select the objects in the lofting order. Here we have three different geometries on different but parallel planes.
Let’s start with the most basic feature of this command. This command works in a little different way and you need to be fully aware of AutoCAD UCS related tools to take maximum advantage of the LOFT Command. LOFT is one of the most basic 3D commands which is generally used for making complex and even organic shaped geometries with relative ease.