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Extruding to coordinates

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nathan_degusseme
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Extruding to coordinates

hello, 

I am trying to design rollercoaster parts in inventor to make an entire track.

But these pieces of track need supports. I am kinda stuck how i can make those supports because i want them all to end at the same level. Is it possible to extrude the support sketch to a level with coordinates x=... and y=0? 

I imported a spline from another program to make the tracks and these splines have coordinates well above y=0. So if i could export the supports to y=0 they would all be automatically at the same level. (I'm going to 3D print those parts ;))

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Hi Nathan,

 

Inventor Extrude feature does allow you to pick a point (terminating to a point). Just click the To button in the Extrude panel and select a point (2D/3D sketch point or workpoint or a vertex on a model). Would it work for you?

Many thanks!



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer
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NigelHay
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Sounds like you need to create a set of support legs which all end on the same piece of level ground. Could you create a work plane to represent the ground then select the plane as your 'extrude to' level?

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