Add "to next" option for extrude extents

[Muzzerboy]

Please add "to next" as an option for defining extents of extrusions. This is a normal option in competitor products and is indispensible in some situations. For example, extruding up to a non-planar face or one that isn't parallel to the sketch plane, particularly with a thin walled surface. 

Without this option, the extrusion may emerge on the other side of the body before it has fully merged with the incident face. Without "to next" there is no easy work around.

[schneik-adsk]

You can get the same result using a to in most cases. Have you tried using to and picking the outside face of the thin wall to terminate?

[kevinwatts]

I strongly agree that there is a need for this improvement!

For an existing project, I need to modify/update/remove and move a number of support bosses used for mounting and fastening that protrude from an irregular curved convex/concave surface. The components need to move in to CNC production. We need a simple solution.

[promm]

Thank you for your idea, this is getting changed to accepted.  Work is being done on improving our extrude functionality and extrude "to next" is one of the enhancements.

Regards,

Mike Prom

Intertal Tracking FUS-26407

[jrychter]

I'm glad this is being worked on — just to add to this: the reason this is important is because sometimes selecting the "to" surface is cumbersome (imagine punching holes in a sphere, for example).

[kevinwatts]

Thank you jrychter. Yes, this is needed.