Extruding at an angle

[jw924969]

Hello,

I am a new user of Inventor and having trouble when trying to extrude a feature at an angle. I am making a mold and want four square features to be angled at 60 degrees to form a "ramp", rather than having a flat bottom like the rest of the features in my mold. I have tried the extrude command>taper, but haven't been able to get it to work. I am sure I am overlooking something as I am a new user.

Please see the attached file. In particular, I would like the features in sketch 6 to be sloped at 60 degrees from a depth of 5000 (the depth of the previous mold extrusions) toward the top of the screen. I would like the features in sketch 7 to be the same as sketch 6, but inverted so that the extrusion will taper toward the bottom.

Many thanks for your help!

[JDMather]

It sounds like maybe you want to Extrude with Taper

or

add Face Draft

But before you go too far,

you are doing wayyyyyy too much work.

Sketch1 is not fully constrained.  You have a lot of symmetry in this part - use the center point rectangle tied to the Origin Center Point.

Do not repeat sketch geometry - use feature patterns instead.

Do not use zero length dimensions - use Coincident constraints.

Use equal (=) and other geometry constraints where appropriate.

You should install Service Packs 1 and 2 as well.

You might set this project aside for a day and go through these -

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html