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Extrude to face & second end option

Josy_LaJosy_La Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
edited June 2017 in Community Support
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?


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  • 3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    I use this feature a lot to offset part from sketch and for me it's been consistent, first value grows out from sketch second tries to go in opposite direction and I need to flip it everytime.

    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!)
    //rami
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