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Confusing portion of Extrude exercise in Introduction to Part Design; you might want to clarify
randall_smith613
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In "Exercise: Extrude" in "Introduction to Part Design", slide 6, the exercise call out the back face of the part to start a new sketch on, and in slide 7 it notes that the sketch was setup by hitting N to make the back face normal for the sketch. However, if you start from the part orientation in slide 6, click the face, and hit N, you will be creating a sketch looking at the back face, and I (eventually, maybe three or four tries through?) realized that the guidance in slide 7 is based on looking at the sketch in the back face plane that you are creating through the front face. The two shadings on the existing part (rather than one smooth piece) is a hint, but not one that someone new to OnShape will pick up on (at least, I didn't :-)). If you want to make it a 3D geometry exercise, it would be useful to have an earlier picture of the goal shape. If you don't, then some discussion of re-orienting the piece so you're looking from the front would be valuable.