Can I create an extruded feature on a curved surface (which would follow the curvature)?

gianmario_scotti

I am trying to extrude a set of cuboids from the curved surface of Part1 using Sketch2 
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/bc827d7f87505cd3d331ae88/w/145538fdee0d3219d60ce87d/e/01e3186e8c08384fbdd23c15
I want these cuboids to follow the curvature of the surface. 

Can this be done, and if so, how?

michael_mcclain

Yes, that's pretty easy. Use Extrude and for 'End Condition', set it to Up To Next or Up To Face and select the Face (You can use only one. This scenario wont work). Just make sure that the Faces or Surfaces fully envelop the shape that will be extruded to meet them. You can also play around with Up To Part.

You can also extrude all the way through the shape, then use a Boolean intersect to get some really cool shapes.

michael_mcclain

Yes, that's pretty easy. Use Extrude and for 'End Condition', set it to Up To Next or Up To Face and select the Face (You can use only one. This scenario wont work). Just make sure that the Faces or Surfaces fully envelop the shape that will be extruded to meet them. You can also play around with Up To Part.

You can also extrude all the way through the shape, then use a Boolean intersect to get some really cool shapes.

gianmario_scotti

michael_mcclain said:

Yes, that's pretty easy. Use Extrude and for 'End Condition', set it to Up To Next or Up To Face and select the Face (You can use only one. This scenario wont work). Just make sure that the Faces or Surfaces fully envelop the shape that will be extruded to meet them. You can also play around with Up To Part.

You can also extrude all the way through the shape, then use a Boolean intersect to get some really cool shapes.

Thanks, you really helped me with that.