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How do I make this a closed shape.
steve_western
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Hi there, I am new to CAD and have been using the Too Tall Toby site to learn, I have this profile which I want to extrude, however I cannot get it to a closed shape, I have redrawn it so many times and always end up here.
Any help gratefully appreciated
Link to the part I'm struggling with. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5338f68fc35b474fe0228a45/w/42097db8f13963835a82dcea/e/6cfdcdab4b711f7d796b2161
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You can use the Profile inspector to find the gaps.
This is a pretty crazy way to construct a shape like this. Any time you find yourself repeating things this many times, it's a sign that you've more than likely done something that's overly complicated. At the bare minimum, even if you have these repetitive shapes in the same sketch because you need to construct things to find the overall length, you can set stuff equal so you don't need to dimension the same values 10 times.
Depending on what you might want to change and what you want to solve for, there are a zillion ways to model this. You could solve it all in a single sketch, or you could make the bumps as features and pattern them. You could add the fillets in the sketch or as features after the fact. Assuming you have a very good reason to do all this in a single sketch, you can take advantage of equals and mirror constraints (or you could use a sketch pattern).
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/50a201754245e798b144981d/w/3b6f2e99c88e89b1603f9ba2/e/147a49e8c341836da98d471c
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