Is there a better (quicker, less complicated) way to do this?

[rickduley]

This little exercise was death by a thousand cuts - well, maybe not a thousand - but plenty.

You can see from my IPT file that there was a lot of extruding going on.  Does someone have a more efficient means to make this?

[admaiora · Accepted solution]

Hi Rick,

the use of many feature and many sketches is not a symptom of a bad modeling, on the contrary it gives you more parametric control on your model and make it more robust.

Keep in mind this:

-keep you sketch simple, using when posible geometric constraints, obsiosly respectint your design intent

- your sketch fully constrained

-think before create a feature to the future needs to change it

-create parameters when you really need them

-contrsain respect the projected origin, simettrically, whenever possible

-Use hole command when in your design there is a hole (and not use an extrude of a circle). With the fisrt way you have  a separate and more powerful controll on the hole! (suppress....thread, conic, etc)

-model your design as it will builded in reality, and use (if you have) the dimension in your project design.

Well, at the end use simple sketches, for simple and manageble and robust features, you will easy obtain whatever complex parts and components.

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In your part, the sketch6 is useless, you can delete it.

-separete the features, depending on your design intent

-you don't need to project the origin everytime, or use the point command, the origin is always projected on your sketch