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    need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

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    10-22-2012 05:12 AM

    im trying to extrude a 2d sketch to a 3d object and when i go to extrude it does let me i konw what im doing wrong but i have no idea how to fix it heres what im doing wrong at the bottoms of my sketch 2 splines meet up im trying to connnect the 2 splines with a line but it doesnt let me exatly connect the spline ends  toghter i just get close im trying to extrude the figure as a solid but as i said before the 2 ends of my sketch wont connect any help?

    heres my sketch

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 05:22 AM in reply to: richfazio

    You need to put all the sketches together in one sketch.

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 05:44 AM in reply to: john.retzlaff

    they are all in 1 sketch just multible lines and i need help connecting those lines so i can extrude as a 3d object

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 05:52 AM in reply to: richfazio

    You have 4 sketches in the browser.  You need to have all this in one sketch in order to extrude a solid.

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 05:56 AM in reply to: john.retzlaff

    hay thanks,

                  But i still dont understand what you mean by that

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 06:00 AM in reply to: richfazio

    In order to extrude a sketch as a solid, it has to have a closed loop.  You have 4 separate sketches you are trying to connect.  Even if you do get all the curves connected, it will not extrude as a solid.

     

    Have you done any of the sketching or part tutorials?

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 04:19 PM in reply to: john.retzlaff

    ive attemted the tutorials but im a learn on my own kind of guy but ill look into the tutorilas again thanks

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 04:21 PM in reply to: richfazio

    You might start here.

    You missed using obvious symmetry about the origin.

    http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf

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    Re: need help extruding 2d sketch as a solid object?!?

    10-22-2012 04:31 PM in reply to: JDMather

    Hay i took another look at the extrution that you made and it wasnt exatly even so i went back to 2d sketch and found that the head set was a little different than the sketch it was uneven and off set

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