Hi! I think you are taking about asymmetric Extrude operation. One side joins but the other side cuts. Inventor has to do it with two Extrusions by sharing the sketch.
Many thanks!
Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer
No that's different. That's all still inside the profile you sketch. I want to cut outside the profile so that even if I only have a circle it will leave the circle and cut everything else out to infinity but at the depth I specify. I'm converting some parts and it's such a pain when so many features can't be done in the same method because it's not an option. Thanks for trying though.
Yeah, I can see where that would be convenient. But it's really not very difficult to project the outline of the part and use that to cut:
Sam B
Inventor Pro 2024.2 | Windows 11 Home 22H2
I suppose my example wasn't as complex as it could have been. It was just the model that I had open in Solidworks at the time to provide an accurate example. As soon as the surface being cut has a bunch of chamfers off the side, or portions that are different depths, you end up making wild sketches that are way oversized to try to cut everything that may exist in the future, or you attach it to dozens of edges around the perimeter. It's not a very parametric way to model, and since any change blows up the convert surface and doesn't include added surfaces or chamfers or anything unexpected. Flip side provides a simple sketch and consistent result. I don't use it every day, but I use it enough to miss it when it's not there.
This is just a random example, where I get a complex cut off of just 6 lines, a couple converted edges, and a mirror. To not miss all the chamfered edges I would have had to make all sorts of strange sketches in Inventor.
