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Special Features: Sweep, Loft and Wrap

The finished sketches will look like this with the planes visible:

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13.7. - After completing the sketches, each of which will be a different cross

section of the bottle, we are ready to make the "Loft" feature. The loft feature

requires two or more sketches and/or faces, and we'll use the four sketches we

just made to build the bottle.

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Features Sketch Direct Editin profiles to create a solid feature.

We will select the profiles in order starting with the first one we made at the

bottom and finishing with the last one at the top (or from top to bottom, but in order).

It is important to select the sketches thinking that the point where we select the

profile will affect the result. Click to select each sketch in the graphics area near

the green 'dots'. This line indicates the segment of one profile that will be

connected to the next profile. If we select points randomly in the profiles, the loft

would twist and produce undesirable results. Optionally, guide curves can be

added to improve control of the resulting shape as we did with the sweep bottle.

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