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How to extrude from existing material with associative constraints

• Create new plane on face• Sketch

– Draw– Dimension– (Optional) constrain– Generate

• Extrude– Select sketch– Select add or cut material– Set depth and direction– Generate

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In modeling select the new plane.Switch to sketching and draw the sketch.

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Right click dimension name to delete mistake

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(Optional) Another approach: symmetry constraints

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(Optional) Another approach: symmetry constraints

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Constraining the reference lineNote constrained objects turn blue

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Applying symmetry constraintNote constrained objects turn blue

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Creating extrude featureNote: hard to select lines out of a sketch. Best to extrude the whole sketch. Make multiple sketches if needing different features.

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Check or modify Direction, Depth, then Generate

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Edit constraints and dimensions till Done!

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Note 1

• Sketching>Modify>Trim to remove mistakes.• Sketching>Details>Show constraints.

Occasionally you may want to delete inferred constraints.

• Click the “select mode” button to escape zoom commands.

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Note 2: can create “named selections” to speed up repeated selection process in Setup

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