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Extrude to face & second end option
Josy_La
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Hi!
Why when I ask to extrude up to a face Onshape does not automatically adapt the direction every time... it seems logical. Sometimes it works perfectly as it should but other times if I select a face I don't want the opposite direction by default. I think the natural direction should correspond to the XYZ system as they are pointing towards a positive direction.
Same when extruding to a second end point, 99% of the time I want the opposite direction from the first one to be able to extrude between 2 references. Often Onshape inital modelling proposition does not give desired result and I have to flip arrows. Am I the only one annoyed by this behavior?
Why when I ask to extrude up to a face Onshape does not automatically adapt the direction every time... it seems logical. Sometimes it works perfectly as it should but other times if I select a face I don't want the opposite direction by default. I think the natural direction should correspond to the XYZ system as they are pointing towards a positive direction.
Same when extruding to a second end point, 99% of the time I want the opposite direction from the first one to be able to extrude between 2 references. Often Onshape inital modelling proposition does not give desired result and I have to flip arrows. Am I the only one annoyed by this behavior?
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mahir
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I'm guessing that the initial guess for 1st direction depends on the normal direction of the sketch/plane being used. This doesn't get updated when choosing up-to-surface, but I agree that it's frustrating. I run into this all the time in every CAD package I've ever used.
But there's a reason it's the same in all CAD software. The problem is consistency. If you select up-to-surface and the direction flips, but then you go back to blind or change to up-to-next... it would be just as frustrating trying trying to keep up with OS constantly trying to automatically flip the direction on you. At least with the current method the baseline is always the same - sketch normal.5
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But there's a reason it's the same in all CAD software. The problem is consistency. If you select up-to-surface and the direction flips, but then you go back to blind or change to up-to-next... it would be just as frustrating trying trying to keep up with OS constantly trying to automatically flip the direction on you. At least with the current method the baseline is always the same - sketch normal.
But I'm annoyed with assembly mate offsets, I know mate connectors have their own coordinate system but it seems that I always need to add '-' to get offset in desired direction - and there is no button to flip direction (there should be in name of consistent UI around software!)