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Line Visibility After Extrude

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EECLTD
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Line Visibility After Extrude

I have a sketch, which gets extruded down "BS_PL_TH" (base plate thickness) and up "SD_PL_HT" (side plate height).
After the extrusions, the lines between the 2 are gone. The face of the part is a loop.
See attached.
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Message 2 of 12
EECLTD
in reply to: EECLTD

I am using IV2009.
Message 3 of 12
Josh_Petitt
in reply to: EECLTD

is this a bad thing? were you wanting the lines to show?
Message 4 of 12
EECLTD
in reply to: EECLTD

I would like the lines to be shown. Sorry.
When i reference the part in the idw or dwg file, it looks like it is a cast part and not made of seperate plates.
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Anonymous
in reply to: EECLTD

If its separate plates, make it so....

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I would like the lines to be shown. Sorry.
When i reference the part in the idw or dwg file, it looks like it is a cast
part and not made of seperate plates.
Message 6 of 12
JDMather
in reply to: EECLTD

If it is separate plates it should be modeled as separate plates - just like the real world.
You could use the Split command to split the faces.

Can you zip and attach the file here?

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Message 7 of 12
EECLTD
in reply to: EECLTD

I have created iparts with several user inputs. Plate sizes and thicknesses, bolt sizes/locations, plate spacings.
I thought that was a good approach, but i may be thinking wrong. Attached is the .ipt file.

Joel
Message 8 of 12
JDMather
in reply to: EECLTD

iParts is probably the right thinking but first you need to master the basics.
I would start with this document - http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2007/MA105-1L%20Mather.pdf

In particular Sketch1 is not constrained about the origin making use of symmetry.
And in Inventor think like the real world equivalents
ipt = real world part
iam = collection of ipt = real world assembly
idw = real world sheet of paper

No one seems to have trouble with these concepts out on the shop floor, that is identifying a part, an assembly and a drawing. But somehow I see a lot of people have trouble with the virtual equivalents.

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Message 9 of 12
JDMather
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I would do as separate parts - but here is a solution using your method. This was done in edu version so delete the file after inspection. Pull down the red End of Part marker step-by-step.

At some point you will probably want to go through tutorials on skeletal modeling.

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Message 10 of 12
EECLTD
in reply to: EECLTD

Thank you. It is great to have a place where people are willing to help eachother out.

Joel
Message 11 of 12
johnsonshiue
in reply to: EECLTD

There is a way to show the consumed sketch in the drawing. Go to the IDW file and right-click on the part icon nested under the view icon in the browser->Get Model Sketch. All the consumed sketches normal to the view direction will come to this view. You can control the visibility of each sketch. In this way, the line you are looking for will be shown.
Thanks!

Johnson Shiue
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Message 12 of 12
Martha.hall
in reply to: johnsonshiue

yes! thank you so much. I came here looking for this answer.

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