Loft to a line and other stuff that makes me go crazy

OK so it just the little things that should work but don't.

Draw a circle profile, draw a line profile........ Now try to loft.....
Surface or Boss.......ARGH!!!!!!!!!!
If you can loft to a "point", and this is just my crazy thinking, then
a line should be possible as well.

Make a cube, Shell it................Now try and find a way to pick the
inside surface so that you can offset it at 0" (essentially a surface
copy) without having to do some work around to select all.

Give the option to have "merged results" turned off for Base features,
without the work around of having to do a weldment first.

Sweeps with 3D Sketching (ie profile, path and guide curves all in one
sketch like lofts and boundary surface)


Ok thats my rant for this morning, I think i just out on the wrong side
of the bed......

 

The reason for this is that a line is "open" and a circle is "closed".
A point can be viewed as a "closed" circle with zero radius, and can
thus be used to create a loft with another closed contour.

You can loft half a circle or ellipse to a line. Maybe do this in two
parts? Even easier if the parts are symmetric.

 

Agreed! When you then select the Shell Feature in the FM all of the
surfaces created by the Shell highlight, but you can't use that as a
selection to do a Offset/Copy Surface.

Muggs

 

Yeah, I mean I do understand about the line and circle don't loft, but
the down side to doing half a circle as a profile is that when you
mirror you get the isp[arm carrying across and I dont want that. in
some cases i want as smooth a surface as possible.

My work around for the Shell issues was to do manual shell by doing a
surface offset first, the wall thickness that i am looking for, and
then "cut with surface". This way I can use that for later features.