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    Re: WHY WONT THIS SHAPE EXTRUDE

    10-24-2012 09:36 AM in reply to: JDMather

    The profile should now extrude fine.

     

    Very rarely do I use Mirror tool in Sketch environment.

    If you count the number of mouse clicks I will wager my technique was fewer clicks that that on the YouTube video.

     

    In any case, Inventor often has trouble combining coincident points when using Mirror.

    If I need a Symmetry constraint - I will add it myself rather than doing Mirror.

     

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    Re: WHY WONT THIS SHAPE EXTRUDE

    10-24-2012 09:41 AM in reply to: JDMather

    If we assume (which I think is a safe assumption) that the design intent was really  for those arcs to be tangent - the curve is just slightly different.

    (both curves shown)

     

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