Extrude remove not possible.

hank_debey

I am a learner.

I have an extruded rectangle with a thickness of 10mm. When I attempt to do an "extrude remove", to create a hole, the hole is not created.  There are black circles on both sides of the rectangle but no hole. I can do an "extrude add" as shown below.

If I select the rectangle, a strange pattern is displayed. I don't get that pattern with other parts in my document. Does anyone know 
1) what the pattern signifies
2) what I can do to extrude a hole?

bruce_williams

You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.

NeilCooke

bruce_williams said:

You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.

I think you nailed it there. 

alnis

Edit: oops, I didn't see there was an accepted answer already, sorry! 

Which part are you trying to add a hole to? I'm not sure if I found the right thing, but it looks like you have three identical parts in the same spot, so your screenshot might be of a hole through one part but with the other parts still present:

In any case, if you're just starting out, I strongly recommend doing some of the tutorials at learn.onshape.com before you jump into bigger projects:
Introduction to CAD

Onshape Fundamentals: CAD

alnis

@hank_debey I use a tool called Peek. Unfortunately, it's only available on GNU/Linux as far as I know. My main machine is a System76 Lemur Pro running Pop!_OS, so Peek is great for my use case, but I don't think there's a Windows or macOS version. It can record gifs, webms, mp4s, and apngs. Quick video showing how it works:
https://youtu.be/jcwMvY944c8
For longer screen recordings, ones needing higher framerates or resolutions, or ones that need sound/a voiceover, I use OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software Studio): https://obsproject.com/
It's free and open-source, and runs well on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but doesn't have a gif output (at least I can't find one), so you would have to run it through a converter if you want a gif. It's a very powerful and popular program, but might be overkill for a quick tutorial gif.
Hope this helped!

NeilCooke

Looks like some sort of graphics error. What browser are you using? Is it up to date?

alnis

@hank_debey can you share a public link to your document?

bruce_williams

You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.

NeilCooke

bruce_williams said:

You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.

I think you nailed it there. 

hank_debey

That was qucik. Here is the link to the document. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/662cdddd47db3356a46031cb/w/5328a671f81c386727127ab1/e/b875b98ff3b764a9ef3112ce 

I hope that is sufficient. I didn't see any setting to change but if there is something else I need to do to share it, let me know.

hank_debey

I am using a Chromebook so the browser is Chrome and a Chrome OS update happened a few days ago. 

One of the things I wondered about was a part inside of a part. I will look again but I don't think so. This part was the sixth part I made in the design process so I was still in the early part of learning OnShape.

alnis

Edit: oops, I didn't see there was an accepted answer already, sorry! 

Which part are you trying to add a hole to? I'm not sure if I found the right thing, but it looks like you have three identical parts in the same spot, so your screenshot might be of a hole through one part but with the other parts still present:

In any case, if you're just starting out, I strongly recommend doing some of the tutorials at learn.onshape.com before you jump into bigger projects:
Introduction to CAD

Onshape Fundamentals: CAD

hank_debey

Yes, it was a part inside of a part. I thought I had checked that but I checked again and voila, I am back on the road again. Thank you.

hank_debey

alnis_smidchens the animated gif you sent was very helpful. How did you make it?

alnis

@hank_debey I use a tool called Peek. Unfortunately, it's only available on GNU/Linux as far as I know. My main machine is a System76 Lemur Pro running Pop!_OS, so Peek is great for my use case, but I don't think there's a Windows or macOS version. It can record gifs, webms, mp4s, and apngs. Quick video showing how it works:
https://youtu.be/jcwMvY944c8
For longer screen recordings, ones needing higher framerates or resolutions, or ones that need sound/a voiceover, I use OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software Studio): https://obsproject.com/
It's free and open-source, and runs well on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but doesn't have a gif output (at least I can't find one), so you would have to run it through a converter if you want a gif. It's a very powerful and popular program, but might be overkill for a quick tutorial gif.
Hope this helped!

hank_debey

Thanks for this great information. In our workshop and training center, we use Chromebooks, hence our appreciation for OnShape. We do have one Chromebook with Ubuntu installed so I will use it to look into Peek.