Extrude edges

Description: 5 minutes; Lab exercise: 20 minutes

Create face parts as you haven't been able to before - from 2D and 3D edges with no limit to the type of edges: open or closed profiles, planar or non-planar, straight lines, splines, etcetera.

Extrude surfaces with a draft angle without using Advanced Taper.

Easily create construction surfaces that help in specifying tangency conditions for other Surfacing operations like Skin.

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Lab exercise

Learn to extrude edges by participating in this lab. You must activate the Surfacing module to use the Extrude Edges command.

Prerequisites

Extrude edges

Here you will learn how to extrude an edge with a draft angle. You can extrude edges with a draft angle between -90 and +90 degrees.

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  1. Create a rectangle and extrude it to a box.
  2. Click Surfacing .
  3. Click Extrude Edges in the Create Face section.

  4. Name the part. It must be an "empty" part.
  5. Click an edge of the box.  The Vector 3D CoPilot is activated.  Hover over a face to determine the direction.  Click the face.
  6. Drag the arrow to a distance of .75 in.

  1. To create a tapered face at the selected edge, click Draft Angle and type -30.  The selected edge will remain fixed while the face will move.

To modify the direction and distance

  1. Click Dir & Dist. The Vector 3D CoPilot in modify mode is activated.
  2. Rotate the arc 50 degrees. You can edit the Draft Angle that you just created.
  3. Drag the arrow to 1.5 inches.

  1. Click to complete the operation.