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Why am I unable to cut a feature into my lofted body?

I have crated a wingsection using the loft feature on a profile generated from a profile generator. Now I want to cut a section out of this body using extrude or boolean. But as soon as the cutting feature cuts trough the surface of the body, the action fails. The errormessage says: Linear Extrude was not generated correctly. boolean operation did not return a valid body.
What am I doing wrong?
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clemens_focke Member Posts: 6 ✭
I think I solved the problem. The trailing edge was messed up. I defined the leading edge and trailing edge as connections in the loft feature, wich helped.
Thanks again for all your help.
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Usually errors like this happen when vertices or edges try to share the same point making a 0 thickness part.
Try making your sketch a little larger than the part and see if that works.
For specific solutions, please share a link to your document.
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Is the wing form a solid or a surface?
If it's a surface then try split surface using the sketch.
If a solid try changing direction.
Sorry, my German is severely limited. As Michael says link to document would be helpful.
If I extrude the sketch past the wing tip it works, but I only need a small portion cut out. Reversing the direction does not solve the problem. Here is a link to the Document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/91bb3adc3e2d9b42a48811c2/w/7fe9d0b3e610e7a5b5a60f5c/e/817f3aaa3fa03c1e89ce08b0?renderMode=0&uiState=681cd9b1ace7080d2e6818da
Thank you for your fast responses.
Can your document be changed to public access? A copy can be made to work out details. As is I can't roll back to see where issue begins and can't edit to solve problem.
Document sould now be public
I think I solved the problem. The trailing edge was messed up. I defined the leading edge and trailing edge as connections in the loft feature, wich helped.
Thanks again for all your help.