Creating Extruded Surfaces

This task shows how to create a surface by extruding a profile along a given direction.

Open the Extrude1.CATPart document.

  1. Click the Extrude icon   .

The Extruded Surface Definition dialog box appears.

  1. Select the profile to be extruded and specify the desired extrusion direction.

You can select a line to take its orientation as the extrusion direction or a plane to take its normal as extrusion direction.

 

You can also specify the direction by means of X, Y, Z vector components by using the contextual menu on the Direction area.

  1. Enter numerical values or use the graphic manipulators to define the start and end limits of the extrusion.

  1. You can click the Reverse Direction button to display the extrusion on the other side of the selected profile.

  1. Click OK to create the surface.

The surface (identified as Extrude.xxx) is added to the specification tree.

 
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