- Creating lofts can be a complicated process.
And in this video
I want to show you how we can create a fairly
complex shape using those guide curves.
So to lay out what I have here
as I've got a starting plane here,
on that plane I have just a point.
So here's my point
which is the starting point, which is right there.
I've got this profile in the center.
I've got an ending point, which is, again, is just a point.
I've got a lower guide and I've got an upper guide.
And then I've got the original profile down here
which is defining the shape.
So you can start from a point,
if you want to which will create a cone
anytime you're doing a loft.
To create this feature,
we need to go up here to features
and come over here to loft.
All right, my profiles, I want to choose them in order.
It's very important to choose things in order.
I'm going to go over here to the twirl down.
And I want to click on this starting point.
There's my starting point.
And then here's my profile.
So click on that and notice the loft already shows up here.
I'm starting with a point
and then going to that other shape.
And then I want to go to my ending point.
Right, so here's my loft.
And you can clearly see that we need some guide curves
cause it's not the shape we want.
That's why we jump down here to the guide curves.
So my lower profile, actually,
then let's start with the upper profile,
click on the upper profile
and you can see what happens is it pulls the shape
up to that upper profile
but it also is pulling the bottom shape.
Now you got kind of like a mustache shape here
so that's not what we want.
So we need one more guide curve.
So click a on the lower guide
and it's going to grab that corner
and pull it down to that lower guide,
that looks good.
But still coming from the top
we've got some issues here
cause it's not pulling the bottom out here.
And that's where we want to choose that third guide
which is the original layout.
And there it is.
So now I've brought each one of those guide curves
into the mix, they're controlling the shape,
we're starting with a point,
we're ending with a point
and this is the profile that we have
in the middle of our design.
And you can spin around, take a look at it
but that's how you add
in all those guide curves for that loft.
Once you've created that, we can then,
let's go ahead and just kind of hide
some of these other planes
so we can see our nice little of shape we created
which is kind of a start
of a creating like a mouse for your computer.
And then I just like to mirror that over.
So it's a good idea to,
you know choose a mirror plane like this one here,
bodies to mirror
let's mirror the entire thing.
And now we are on our way
to creating a beautiful mouse for your computer.