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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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