- [Instructor] The lofted cut tool works very similar
to a regular loft but instead of creating geometry itself,
we are cutting away that geometry.
So over here, I've got a block and on one side of the block
I drew a simple rectangle with some rounded corners on it.
And the other side of the block, I drew a circle.
So here's my sketch one,
here's my sketch two,
actually sketch two and three,
but going from that one to this one;
and here's my original block.
So obviously, you have to have something to cut away
if you're going to be doing a lofted cut
and then head up over here to lofted cut,
click on this one here.
And this tool works literally identical
to the regular loft, right?
I'm going to choose my profiles,
I'm going to choose this one here,
and it's going to go to this one over here.
And I do want to point out though,
that notice this point here is going to that point there?
I always recommend having the same amount of segments
in each of your profiles.
So in this case, we don't have that
but we might have the ability to free form,
rotate around a little bit.
But I do want to point that out,
that could be a potential issue.
Click on okay and just that easily, bam!
We've got a nice a lofted cut going right through our part.
If you want to come back over here to that loft again;
we have the option of adding in guide curves if we wanted to
or coming in and doing starting and ending constraints.
In this case here, I can choose normal to profile,
let's make that zero.
And then my other profile here is going to be
normal to profile as well.
You can't really see what's going on here,
so let's switch over to this view
so we can see what's happening inside there.
And of course, I can grab these handles
and I can pull them out and they'll have more or less effect
depending on how long I make them to control this shape.
You can see over here, I can do the same thing over here,
I can make that a little bit longer
and I can define this a lot more
by using those little handles with those arrows.
I can also change the angles if I wanted to and so on,
but once you're done, click on the green check mark
and now you can see we've got that shape.
We've got a nice little funnel there.
And if I switch back over to this view here,
you can see what's going on in our shape.
So again, the lofted cut works very, very similar
to the regular loft, but you do need to make sure
you're cutting through something,
but we've got a lot of control as far as guide curves
or different profiles and the way or angles
are going to be cutting into the shape.
Keep in mind though, whenever you're creating a loft,
especially when you've got these freeform curves,
those are going to be really hard to define on a drawing.
So keep that in mind when you're creating
these type of shapes that that will be an issue as you go.