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Portable Air Cooler

mario_darceuilmario_darceuil Member Posts: 108 ✭✭
I am designing the heat exchanger for the portable air cooler. I want to extrude the 4 circles through all of the heat exchanger fins and replace the circles with tubes going through all of them. Please show me how to accomplish this feat.



https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4bcfe478c3a8d738998fb396/w/31b4a1c2d937511e77983be9/e/ca7cceaf16668d9489d79312

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    bradley_saulnbradley_sauln Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 373
    Your best place start is to go through the Onshape fundamentals self-paced course: https://learn.onshape.com/learn/learning-path/onshape-fundamentals-cad

    You will want to extrude your fins as solid parts and then using the power of a Part Studio you could extrude the tubes to go through the fins and connect everything. Sections 2,3, and 4 of the fundamentals CAD pathway are where you want to look.
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    mario_darceuilmario_darceuil Member Posts: 108 ✭✭
    I look at it see if it helps.
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    mario_darceuilmario_darceuil Member Posts: 108 ✭✭
    I tried everything; Up to face; etc, but I couldn't figure out the merge command. The fins are not touching but I want to extrude  4 holes that go through all of them after which I''ll do and extrusion as a new part for pipes that go through the holes, Please help.
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    NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,395
    You've patterned a bunch of sketches - they need to be solid parts before you can make holes in them. Please review the free training videos.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
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    steve_shubinsteve_shubin Member Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭✭
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