About Extruding

This topic provides information about the extrusion of planar profiles.

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Extruding
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Up to Plane / Surface Capabilities when Extruding a Sheetmetal Shape
  • Sketches for walls and sub-extrusions are under-constrained. The sketches generated for the wall on edge are fully-constrained.
  • If the extrusion is not connected to the Sheet Metal part and therefore is not linked to a support, the first feature can either be a wall or a sub-extrusion.
  • If the extrusion is connected to the Sheet Metal part and therefore is linked to a support, the first feature can either be a tangent wall on edge (if the connected part of sketch is line), a sub-extrusion (if the connected part of sketch is a curve), or a wall on edge.
  • In the Optional frame, you can select faces to split in the Contact faces box.
  • We advise you to explode the extrusion into several elementary features (wall, sketch based wall on edge, bend, sub extrusion, and so on) to enable modifications. To do so, you can select Create individual features. After the explode, there is no more links to the original sketch. Any change in the sketch will have no impact on the exploded features.
    Notes:
    • During the explode, if a sketch created for a wall on an edge contains a curved edge, then the sketch is under-constrained.
    • In case of an explode using the Sketch at extreme position option, all the generated sketches are located at the extrusion profile.
    • In case of an explode using the Middle option, wall and wall on edge sketches are located at either side of extrusion profile and sub-extrusion profiles are located at the extrusion profile.