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[#1]

Works very well.

Nice one.

Thanks,

Dan

[#2]

lol mcgyvr,

It was your mention of silk screens that inspired me to throw that together, as I've encountered that exact challenge in the past. Someone else mentioned engraving logos, and I've run into that as well.

Up until I read those two examples of how this might be used, I was thinking as JDMather and jeanchile were that this request was coming from a poor workflow. So I'll throw in a caution to new users not to try and use this or anyother iLogic as a shortcut to good technique:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2011/03/inventor-101-simple-fully-constrained.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#3]

Thank you very much! 

Anyway, here is a real example.

This is an imported sketch from Autocad:

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/4955/captureven.jpg

These are the columns of a building:

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/9748/microdosinglevel1.jpg

I choose to make them in one extrude feature.

Regards

Alexandru 

[#4]

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Curtis_Waguespack wrote:

lol mcgyvr,

It was your mention of silk screens that inspired me to throw that together, as I've encountered that exact challenge in the past. Someone else mentioned engraving logos, and I've run into that as well.

 

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Again..Curtis.. I love you.. Just had to do a very large silkscreen with tons of profiles to pick.. For giggles I did it manually first and it took 4 min 18 seconds to pick them all. Then I undid that and tried your ilogic rule.. Took ONLY 11 seconds for the rule to run/extrude all the profiles. Amazing...

[#5]

Hi Inventor users,

By request I've added a couple of other versions of this iLogic rule at this link. One version  uses the Through All method and automatically cuts all open profiles through all, bidirectionaly. The other use the To Next method to extrude.

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2012/03/ilogic-to-select-all-of-closed-profiles.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#6]

Curtis..I still love you for this.. I use it all the time..