We cannot create sketches on a face created via Thicken / Offset command. We can create the desired sketch only on the 1st (main?) face.
Steps:
1. Create a simple sketch (eg. a rectangle)
2. Extrude it to taste but be sure to use in the "Output" the "Surface" option in order to create a surface and not a feature/object.
3. Select the surface and run the "Thicken / Offset" command. In the dialogue which appears select "Quilt" option. Also, select the surface generated at step 2. In "Distance" drop-box enter a sensible value in order to see the difference between the vertical faces (IOW make thick walls).
4. Press Ok. Now you should have some thick walls around. Great!
5. Hover with the mouse on any face, right-click, and choose "New Sketch"
Expected: A new sketch is created
Actual: A new sketch is created only for certain faces. In my case only for the faces "inside" of walls.
Note: I consider this rather a bug.
TIA for your support.
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I followed your workflow and I'm not experiencing the bug, I an create a sketch on any resulting face.
Can you create a Screencast of the bug in action? --> Autodesk Screencast (Free)
It seems that Thicken / Offset must be done with Direction : Inside.
See here an annotated video showing the problem:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OATwjSDQKUXSUbQys2bWU4kC6pJGnOUJ/view?usp=sharing
Ok I'm able to reproduce the bug as well by following the steps in your video. @johnsonshiue, has this bug been logged before? Here's a quick breakdown of the repro steps:
Thanks both for your support!
@johnsonshiue: Where I should post such quirks? (I am new to this community)
IMHO this is not so much an idea but a lack of functionality. Sometimes there is a grey area between a "frontal" crash and a completely new functionality.
If posting here is ok with you then no problem. 🙂
Hi! The issue was reported as INVGEN-13536. It is indeed a legacy geometry-specific naming and matching defect in Extrude/Thicken. I checked the latest status. There isn't much progress to report at the moment.
Many thanks!
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