Forum: Carrara

Subject: lofting question

biggert opened this issue on Dec 12, 2004 ยท 8 posts

biggert posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 12:39 AM

ok...when i loft a duplicated selection, the top and bottom become empty...the green circle shows the part i'm talking about. before i loft,the ends are filled...then when i loft, the ends become empty. i tried selecting these edges and choosing "Fill Polygon" but i can't cause the command is greyed out (not available)... any tips why this is happening? thanks for any advice. BT

biggert posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 12:40 AM

before lofting

ominousplay posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 12:47 AM

I don't know, instead of lofting, try adding thickness.

Never Give Up!

falconperigot posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 2:49 AM

Lofting works with polylines rather than filled polygons which is why the polys are emptied. If you add vertices around the straight edges and connect them to those in the center you should be able to fill them. But it's probably quicker to do as ominousplay suggests and use 'add thickness' instead. In that case you'll have to unlink the vertices for your end flaps. In either case you won't be able to fill those polys which already have two shared edges.

Message edited on: 12/12/2004 02:50

Message edited on: 12/12/2004 02:51

biggert posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 9:26 AM

thanks guys...now i know why. thanks again. :) BT

sfdex posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 1:49 PM

I'm no VM expert, but I've used the extrude function and haven't had this issue. HTH! - Dex

biggert posted Mon, 13 December 2004 at 12:52 AM

thanks sfdex

cckens posted Mon, 13 December 2004 at 11:24 AM

Biggert, As falcon says, the problem that you have is that you have a multi-gon (don't know what else to call it) selected. Notice that you have closed portions of your duplicated polygons (See orange arrows). Deslect these edges and you should be able to loft with no removal of the endcaps. As I tend to loft alot, this is a common problem for me. Don't know why it even let you, though. Most of the time I get an error when I try to do that. Ken ![dork.gif](http://market.renderosity.com/~carrara/emoticons/dork.gif)