Lofting a base for a light fixture - Grrrr.

I'm trying to loft a base for a light fixture. It's narrowest at the top and bottom, and its widest point is in the middle. classic design.

Can I upload a pdf? I assume if it's available to everyone via a search engine, wouldn't it be ok to upload it? Any thoughts?

I digress. I'm trying to look at the circles from the side, so they form horizontal lines. I thought they'd be easier to offset a distance to.

I tried changing my views around to achieve that effect, but to no avail. UCS is World view. Or View.

One of the images in the .pdf, is of the appearance I'm after in a front view. So that way, I could do an offset distance of one inch, but as things stand now, that wouldn't work either.

It wouldn't work in this view projection, I think was what the wording was; or close to it.

The only view I was able to do any offsets in was the Top view IIRC, but that just gave me a bunch of concentric circles with no height. At least they were offset.

Thanks in advance,

TMC

Lofting circles is one way to do it, but you could also draw the profile, and REVOLVE it.

Also, if you want to look at the circles from the "side" so they appear as lines, which you can move up and down. don't use the viewcube, use one of the side views from the View menu, or View toolbar to change the UCS, that way the Z-axis becomes the Y-axis making it easier to move them up and down.

From what perspective would you make the base for the light fixture? Is there a preferred method/view to work from?

Thanks for the help.

From what perspective would you make the base for the light fixture? Is there a preferred method/view to work from?

 

Thanks for the help.

That would be a matter of personal preference, I would choose an isometric view, as it allows you to better observe all three axi. From any orthogonal perspective you will only be able to observe 2 axi.

Thanks Dadgad.

You're welcome, glad to help. FYI, if you need to upload a .dwg file, or just about any other type of file you click on the Go Advanced button at the lower right corner of the Quick Reply window, then choose Manage Attachments to browse for the item you want to upload, then just follow the prompts.

Ok, thanks.