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Sketching a circle to be extruded on a curved surface

mario_darceuilmario_darceuil Member Posts: 113 ✭✭
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Please illustrate how to sketch a circle on a curved surface that will later be extruded.
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  • S1monS1mon Member Posts: 2,988 PRO
    You have several curved surfaces, and extrusions can do a lot of things. Can you sketch on a screenshot what you want to do?
  • Matt_ShieldsMatt_Shields Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 419
    If your curved surface is a cylinder, use wrap:
    https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/wrap.htm

    Otherwise, you could extrude a sketch as a surface up to the curved surface and then use the split tool.  Those tools will get your sketch onto the curved surface.  But you can't extrude a 3D entity, so you should use move face or thicken.  That will get you this:



    Or, if your goal is just to have a cylinder poking out of the curved surface, sketch on another plane and then extrude up to face.  That will get you this:




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