Thin extrude taper

Thin extrude taper

Chuffmechanicalengineer
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Thin extrude taper

Chuffmechanicalengineer
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Hi!

I don't think that this issue has already been reported, but there were a lot of other search results for 'thin extrude', so forgive me if it has!

I have been trying to use the 'thin extrude' command, with a taper angle. This appears to skew/rotate the entire extrusion, instead of the proper behaviour of tapering it.

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HughesTooling
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I think the idea is the extrude is at an angle not the wall being tapered. If you select more edges it makes more sense.

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If you want a tapered wall you'll need to extrude then use draft to add a taper to the wall\walls.

 

Mark

Mark Hughes
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Chuffmechanicalengineer
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That sounds like a bit of a strange feature, but I see what you mean. I'm sure it usen't to work like that... I'll post a message to the Ideas board, to see if we can have the old functionality re-added in a different parameter. Thanks!

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jeff_strater
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I don't believe thin extrude ever has worked so that the thin part itself is tapered.  Its entire intention was to produce a constant-thickness body from a set of input curves.  Similar to what you would get from extruding a surface body and thickening it.


Jeff Strater
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