Creating Extruded Surfaces

Extrude lets you create a surface by extruding a profile along a given direction.


Before you begin: Create a 3D shape containing a surface.
  1. In the Profile box, select the profile to be extruded.
  2. In the Direction box, specify the desired extrusion direction.
    Note:
    • You can select a line to take its orientation as the extrusion direction or a plane to take its normal as extrusion direction.
    • You can also specify the direction by means of X, Y, Z vector components by using the context menu on the Direction box.
  3. In the First Limit and Second Limit boxes, define the extrusion limits.
  4. Select Symmetric extrusion to extrude the profile in the opposite direction using the same dimension value as the one defined for the first dimension.
  5. Click Reverse Direction or the red arrow in the 3D geometry to display the extrusion on the other side of the selected profile.
  6. Click OK to create the extruded surface.