Extrude sketch concentrically into cylinder

[harperrhett]

Hi all,

I'm trying to find out how to create an extrusion that extrudes to the shape of an object. For instance I have this cylinder here with a circular sketch:

The circular sketch was made on a tangent plane, and I want to extrude it a small amount into the cylinder but maintain the original face of the cylinder. If I extrude it now, it will create a flat inset plane, but I want it to be curved like the cylinder. Is there some way to wrap the sketch and then extrude it?

Thanks 🙂

[g-andresen]

Hi,

please share your design to take a look at.

Maybe "Extrude" with option "From/To object" might help.

günther

[jeff_strater]

@harperrhett - From Object in Extrude is the way to go here.  One warning, though.  There is a bug with From Object and tangent sketch plane:  extrude-only-extrudes-part-of-selected-profile , so it helps to offset the sketch plane a bit.  But, this will result in the geometry you are after:

[MRWakefield]

Hi Jeff, this is what I was playing with when I came across the bug you're referencing.

[harperrhett]

Sorry for the late response! I am familiar with to object, for some reason I totally overlooked from object, thanks for the help! I am having trouble with that bug though, only half of my sketch is extruding, I'll have to take a look at the workarounds.