As I have done many times, I inserted a mesh (.stl) and then "convert mesh" to make it into a body. At that point usually I can treat it as a regular body and make edits to it.
I'm trying to remix a .stl and after converting the mesh I can make edits directly to the body (ex. chamfer and edge), but when I try to make a drawing on the body and then extrude (cut) into the body I get the error message "No target body found". Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
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without the model, it is a bit hard to tell, but the symptoms you describe (can chamfer, but not solid extrude cut), it sounds like you have a surface body, not a solid body. If the mesh is not closed, it will convert to a surface body, not a solid. Share the model, and it will be easy to tell. Or, look at the browser. Is it an orange icon, or a white icon?
Attached is an image of the browser. There are two bodies (top and base plane 1). Both are white and closed bodies. Interestingly, I can extrude through the "top" body but not through the "base plane 1" body.
Instead of -3 mm, what if you set to Through All Symmetric?
If Through All doesn’t work, what if you set to a large distance, say 1 m (that is meter, not mm).
The part I'm trying to extrude a hole through is 3.8mm thick. If I extrude 3.8mm I get the "no target body found" message. However, if I extrude anything over that (3.9mm) it cuts properly and goes through.
The problem is there are some other features I want to cut out of the body that don't go all the way through, which I won't be able to do until I figure this out.
I know I attached the .f3z file before, but I don't see it so here it is again.
There is something inconsistent with the Base Plane body. If you do a Boundary Fill on that body, you will get two entities. If you chose both of them and create a new body, then use it to Extrude your sketch into, it works fine.
Model is attached as an F3Z file. I could not separate out the case as an F3D file.
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Thank you so much.
Dumb question, how do I export or save as .f3d? The only options I see are .f3z.
If you can Break Link on the External File(s) you can export as an F3D file. I could not seem to get this task to completely work so I was not able to create an F3D file.
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