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Cant Extrude Some of My Geometry

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Cant Extrude Some of My Geometry

Anonymous
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Attached is a the file in question. 

 

 

I have an old part, I want some text/logos from the old part in a new part. 

 

Step 1.

Create new sketch in old part

 

Step 2. 

Project desired sketch/text/logo geometry into new sketch. 

 

Step 3. 

Copy all of the projected line

Paste them in a new sketch in the new part

 

All that works great. But then when I go to extrude the sketch parts of it work, others don't. Attached is a file with some of my text. The "t" and "r" extrude just fine. The "o"s wont extrude. 

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

John

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Anonymous
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In your file, you're right, extrude doesn't work on the 'o's.
So why not just use emboss?

BeeDub
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kelly.young
Autodesk Support
Autodesk Support
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Hello @Anonymous if you really want to use Extrude:

 

  • Select all lines
  • R+Click > Edit Spline
  • Select each loop individually R+Click > Convert to Interpolation
  • Select each loop again, R+Click > Close Spline

Emboss works better for these types of lines.

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

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Anonymous
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Hey!

 

That worked. 

 

Maybe I don't fully understand the difference between extruding and embossing...

 

Thanks!

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Anonymous
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Thanks Kelly,

 

Embossing is fine. It didn't really occur to me to try to emboss it. 

 

Is there any info you could share about why embossing works and extruding doesn't? 

 

Embossing is fine for my purposes, but I'm curious as to what's going on here. 

 

Thanks!

 

John

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kelly.young
Autodesk Support
Autodesk Support
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@Anonymous short answer, I don't know why it does it, I just know that it does. Has to do with line type, splines, and closed loops if I had to guess.

 

You can do some things with an emboss that you can't with extrude and vice versa. Examples:

 

Emboss - can't use in an iFeature

Extrude - can't wrap to surface at a specific depth like emboss.

 

Just experience of use on which is the right weapon to pick for your battles.

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johnsonshiue
Community Manager
Community Manager
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Hi Kelly and John,

 

The inconsistency between Extrude and Emboss in this case may differ in its technology of choice. Extrude takes the profile and sweeps in the sketch normal directly. So, the Extrude failure is simply Sweep failure. You can create a straight line sticking out of the sketch as a path. More than likely, sweeping the 'O' along the path will fail.

Emboss is using Split and Thicken. The profile is used to split the face. Then, the face is thickened to the given distance. This means, somehow the split and the thicken do not mind such profile.

Something is not working right here. I will work with project team to understand this behavior better. It should work in both cases.

Many thanks!

 



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer

Anonymous
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Johnson,

 

Thank you very much!

 

That's a great explanation of the differences between emboss and extrude. 

 

John

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