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Making lofted cuts

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Making lofted cuts

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- [Instructor] For this example, we're going to be learning about creating a lofted cut. Now a lofted cut is pretty much identical to a regular loft, but instead of creating a feature or a body itself, it's going to be removing some material from an existing body. So you can see here I've got this little rectangular block in red, and I've got a couple of sketches laid out. So I've got a sketch here, which is just a rectangle and I've got some radius corners in here. And then over here I have just a basic circle on the backside there. So if I were to cut this through here, it's going to create kind of like a little funnel shape, starting big and ending small. So let's go ahead and try that out. So the first thing I want to do is come up here under Features, come over here and find not only the Lofted Cut. Here it is. So click on Lofted Cut and my profiles. I like to choose the profiles from the little dropdown tree here. So here is my sketch two, and down here is sketch number three…

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