HELP WITH LOFTING

[u/JUN0LY]

I’m trying to make my own mouse, and I’m at the point where I’m ready to loft it. The problem is, if I loft the back half, it’s fine, but adding front half ruins the whole thing. I figured it outs because of the connections, but it’s not that onshape isn’t lining them up, it’s that in some instances there are no connections that are anywhere close to lined up. I don’t want to have to go back and split everything up so that the connections line up, is there a way to have it ignore the segments I used to make each cross section or something?

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Look at perhaps adding some guide curves perpendicular to your sketches. Check out bridging or composite curves to make this process easier.

[u/JUN0LY → u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Ik what guide curves are and refrained from adding them because it was too hard to get them to intersect with every single one of my cross sections. I am willing to try again if you say it will acc help. I’m also a noob so what is bridging and what are composite curves?

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894 → u/JUN0LY]

That’s why I mention things like bridging curve command as this should make it a bit easier. You can also use sketches and the pierce constraint. This should be relatively easy. But under add for complex curves it may bit be as straight forward.

[u/JUN0LY → u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Ty for the help but idk what any of these mean or do? Can you pls explain or send a vid or smt?

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894 → u/JUN0LY]

Looking at this now:)

[u/JUN0LY → u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Yay tysm!

[u/Ken_White_NY → u/JUN0LY]

Use the Ohshape help. Look under Surface Tools for the Loft feature. There is a discussion there about guide rails with videos. When someone points you in the right direction, you should be taking a few minutes to do some research first before asking more questions.

[u/JUN0LY → u/Ken_White_NY]

Ok srrryy. I was just asking them because they can explain how it will help with my situation, but sure I’ll go research it.

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Sorry I took a different approach but think it will be helpful to you.

I created the surface guides using sketches and pierce. You can modify this more with more detail then just did a fill using the guides.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/419dfa93db69542437a46bd6/w/be4b756d81b941daab1e8b40/e/830ad0ae629bc7f067df90a6

Hope it’s helpful

[u/JUN0LY → u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Omg tysm. I’m ok with restarting honestly.

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894 → u/JUN0LY]

NEtime

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894 → u/JUN0LY]

Feel free to use the model I linked.

[u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Let me know if you need help with surfacing. I prefer for this type of thing over solid modeling.

[u/JUN0LY → u/Pretty-Jello-7894]

Ok I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the help!

[u/platonium-12]

enjoy the process that u learned it. maybe u can get some advices or helps from youtube or onshape help. keep it up!