Sweeping or Lofting?

 From:  BurrMan
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I was receiving help from Michael about how to do my modeling. Here is a simple fishing led I used as a sample. we figured lofting would best get the shape I was after, though I couldnt find the control of the profile I was after as with the sweep tool. The sweep tool is limiting the "Cross Sections" I can use where the loft tool didnt.

Here is the loft with a profile I didnt care for.



So I went to the sweep, using only 2 profiles, I get my desired resulting shape.



Though I cant figure out why the asymmetrical polygon was swept at a different axis than drawn!

I was figuring out how it was picking my profiles and I guess it has something to do with the "order" and "direction" things are drawn. I had to redraw my rail in the opposite direction to get my asymmetrical polygon on the right end of the sweep. How did I rotate this polygon so the sweep rotated it?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Here is the final desired result and the 3 MoI files!

Burr

EDITED: 19 Jun 2012 by BURRMAN