Hull Lofting Experiments and Issues

 From:  Michael Gibson
3002.21 In reply to 3002.19 
Hi Mark, so what I'm talking about is right about in this area:



Right about there begins a significant mutation in the shape.

That then becomes a situation where you are actually trying to loft too much at once rather than not enough at once... I know it's tricky to find the right balance.

When you try to make a protrusion like that all in one go it will be very difficult to avoid awkward shaping.



Basically what happens is that MoI tries to match the whole length of each profile evenly with the next one.

It's not smart enough to figure out all on its own that different regions of your profiles should be matched with only some individual portions stretching out.


To try and describe that a bit better, in your situation there it looks like you want these portions to be mapped more closely to one another:




But then have these parts at the bottom kind of stretch out separately from the above parts:




Loft does not understand these kinds of sub-region matching automatically. You can help it by splitting the profiles into segments so that the segments will control the matching but when you have such a major shift in shaping that more calls out for a separate piece there and attach it to the main one by fillet or blend.

- Michael