Loft Between Sketches with Multiple Parts?

Hi,
I want to loft between 2 circles of different sizes, creating a cone. (Simple right)…however… one of the circles has a line running through it. The circle is on a sketch plane with another shape as well, so it takes 2 clicks or presses of the Apple pen to select the circle shape.

See the picture below.

The loft tool gets confused and throws an error about the resulting shape - I am just making a cone, nothing overly complex; the real problem is: one of the starting circles for the Loft, requires two presses to be selected, and it seems the tool can’t support that.

HELP
AJ

Hi,

Here is a workaround:

You can move the problematic line crossing the circle, create the loft, then move the line back to it’s original position.

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Thank you for this!!

We will look into the problem itself. :slight_smile:

Hi all, this has been bugging me for years and it just occurred to me to search if I could find any info on it. I see Shapr3d staff saying they will look into it and I’m just curious if there’s any changes here? As far as I can tell this behavior hasn’t changed. It seems like the interface for editing history that allows selection of multiple faces for, say, an extrusion could also work here. Also, it seems like it would be straightforward enough to have a “next” button between the selection of one side and the other side, which would eliminate the need for each face to be only one click. Anyway, I can see several ways this could be dramatically improved so I’m just curious if there are any plans? Is it on any to-do list?

PS I’m replying to this old thread because it does such a good job of explaining the issue and I didn’t want to have to write my own explanation.