Why will my loft not work?

So I have a 2D Voronoi that I moved up and I want to now loft them together but it won't let me. Well, it actually does loft but in a really weird way.

I've tried to flatten everything but that made the loft fail completely.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 12, 2013 at 7:49am

Hi JS,

Lofting works on a list of curves. That means that for every single list of curves you'll get a single Loft result*. It seems like in your file what you want is to create lofts that look like extrusions. This means you need to supply lists of 2 curves, one for the bottom edge of the loft and one for the top.

Grafting will create the data structure you need, but extruding would be easier to begin with.

* Unless the loft fails of course

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by JS on November 12, 2013 at 7:23pm

Thanks David!

So the loft was failing because it didn't know which order to loft the items? And by creating a list for each item, it then was able to match them up properly? I think I'm getting it...

Anyway, I was wondering, how did you make that nifty frame in your screenshot? I read in your post that it is CTRL+Q? When I do that it just gives me a generic screenshot that printscreen would give me.

Also why do you use the clean tree component? It doesn't seem to be changing the data from the explode component?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 13, 2013 at 3:06am

So the loft was failing because it didn't know which order to loft the items?

no, you're only lofting two curves so the order doesn't matter. Loft didn't know which curves you wanted to loft. You provided it with lists of curves that didn't represent the loft you were after.

Anyway, I was wondering, how did you make that nifty frame in your screenshot? I read in your post that it is CTRL+Q? When I do that it just gives me a generic screenshot that printscreen would give me.

You can add frames and clipping domains using the toolbar at the top of the Ctrl+Q window.