Extrude multiple faces while maintaining borders

[Anonymous]

A project has me modeling up decorative dentil molding. The molding design is drawn up as a sketch. In the sketch there are a few hundred individual squares with overlapping lines. I want to extrude these square with a 20 degree taper angle. When I try to select multiple squares, they all combine into one body, even though the taper angle should cause them to not be connected. Is there a better way to create these raised tapered squares than extruding them one at a time?

I'd like to avoid extruding each square individually.When I select multiple squares...... this is the result

Any pointers or better workflows? Appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

Luke

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

Sketch patterns are not a good idea and should be avoided. Create one extrusion in each row then pattern the extruded faces, you'll get better performance from Fusion patterning face than sketch entities.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks. That was relatively painless.