Making 3D Sketches

feiyu_wu934

Hi! I'm currently a high school student and I've been designing a 3D model sketch for my go-kart school project. I can't figure out how to get rid of the grey shaded areas and it looks very unprofessional. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? 

Jake_Delano

Hi Feiyu, the gray shaded areas are telling you that those are closed sketches and this is intended functionality to differentiate between open and closed sketches

bruce_williams

in addition - you should be using solids to represent the 3D components. Make a sketch and then extrude each shape.  Once you have that, you can display it in different formats like shaded or transparent.  See the Learning Center for great tutorials.

Domenico_DiMare

If you haven't already, check out the Beams custom feature. You might find the custom feature useful. It will help take your sketch lines and turn them into tubing!

Here's a short article about the beams feature and how to use it.

Good luck with your project!