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How to create an extrusion with angled walls
logan_merriam
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I'm extruding a shape and I need the walls of the shape to be angled inward. This is a complex shape so it can't just be scaled down scaled down uniformly, the final face of the extrusion has to be "shrunk" or inset relative to the the original shape. I'm including a mockup to illustrate. Any ideas how to do this?
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- Extrude with a draft angle
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I tried using separate extrusions for main and take away with a Boolean subtract and got a better result but the bottom is closed at larger draft angle.
You can make a draft that eliminates the second end of an extrude as long as nothing over laps.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/44300b8443e31a8a7552cb4e/w/9ece92663a727e60560de254/e/7065876524fb33db90d58e16
Something else that is best practice. It looks like your sketch was an imported dxf or something that did not convert to smooth splines and arcs. Try tracing the shape within onshape to ensure smooth lines for the extrude. This helps the calculations for some features.
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