Onshape Tutorial for Absolute Beginners: Part 2

We'll start by coming over here to sketch. I'm going to click on it and we're going to create a sketch here on this face. Now I'm going to come over here to the centerpoint circle. I'm going to click on it and I'm going to create a circle here on this face. Once I create it, I'm going to select this front plane or possibly the right plane depending on how you modeled it. I'm going to select that plane. I'm going to select the center point holding down shift and we're going to come over here to coincident. And when I click on coincident, it's going to mate that front plane to this point. That means that if I move the point, move the circle up and down, that middle point is always connected to the plane. With that connected, we're going to hit okay. And I'm going to come over here to plane. We're going to click on this face. We're going to drag out a plane and hit okay. And on this plane, I'm going to select it, create a sketch. I'm going to click here on the view cube to look right at where we're working. I'm going to select a center point rectangle. I'm going to select the center point and drag out. I'm going to hit okay. So now I have a circle here and I have a square here. We're going to come over here to loft. Click on loft and I'm going to select this circle and I'm going to select a square. And you're going to see that it lofts between these two shapes. And that's what a loft looks like. Now notice we have start profile condition and we have end profile condition. If I change this to be normal to profile you can see that the profile of the loft shifts. So I can make this tangent to profile and it's influencing the shape. I can make it match tangent. And I can keep selecting the options and we could see how it's going to compute that shape. And some of them actually don't compute. these ones at the end. You'll also notice that there's an end profile condition. And that's because the start and the end, you know, that was option one and option two we selected.