topic Re: Extrude "To" is missing now. in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Extrude "To" is missing now.

cristiprefac — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:12:33 GMT

I noticed the Extrude "To" Extent option is missing now. Instead, you can indeed click the face to extrude to, but it only reads the explicit distance and sets it, it's not "parametric" anymore, which is a very big drawback when designing stuff and you need to go back and adjust dimensions.

For example, I extrude a face "To" another face, then go back one step in timeline and offset the face I extruded to. When I get at the end of the timeline, my original extrude "To" doesn't change, since the distance is explicit and doesn't take into account the fact that the face I extruded to has an offset now. I hope this makes sense.

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

daniel_lyall — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:35:57 GMT

yep I did it a few different ways and each time the presspull would not move to the offset face it stay at the original presspull position.

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

Beyondforce — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:40:16 GMT

Hi @cristiprefac,

Is that what you are looking for?

Cheers / Ben
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Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

daniel_lyall — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:56:06 GMT

@Beyondforce you missed one step offset face, the way you showed can not always be done sometime you have to use offset face.

that's where the problem is.

what you showed is correct and what the op should do but it's failing if you need to offset a face that is a presspull to face

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

Beyondforce — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:57:33 GMT

Will you please make a screencast?

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

cristiprefac — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 11:41:30 GMT

Yes, thank you! 🙂

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

jeff_strater — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 13:10:50 GMT

I think this is working correctly, at least in the simple case I tried. The one thing I noticed in what @daniel_lyall said was that he was using Press/Pull. The Press/Pull command can sometimes do an Extrude, but other times will do a Offset Faces, depending on what is selected. This is why I don't like Press/Pull at all - I'd rather know what command I am executing and just use that.

Here is a screencast:

The other thing that can be confusing sometimes is that Extrude also supports "Snap to Face" when it is in "Distance" mode. This is a vestige from Direct Modeling, where there is no associative "To Object" Extrude. In this mode, yes, snapping to a face just sets the distance to that face, does not allow an offset, and does not conform the Extrude to match the shape of the face. So, be sure you have selected "To Object" if you want it to be associative.

Here is another screencast showing face snapping:

Hope this helps

Jeff

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

daniel_lyall — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 18:46:53 GMT

@Beyondforce will do in an hour got school run to do

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

Beyondforce — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:42:53 GMT

Don't understand the question?

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

daniel_lyall — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:55:36 GMT

@Beyondforce it's not a question

Re: Extrude "To" is missing now.

daniel_lyall — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:19:03 GMT

now here is where it fails what is the wrong way to do it now, and I show the fix.

including a offset face