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Extrude remove not possible.

hank_debey
hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
in Community Support
I am a learner.

I have an extruded rectangle with a thickness of 10mm. When I attempt to do an "extrude remove", to create a hole, the hole is not created.  There are black circles on both sides of the rectangle but no hole. I can do an "extrude add" as shown below.

If I select the rectangle, a strange pattern is displayed. I don't get that pattern with other parts in my document. Does anyone know 
1) what the pattern signifies
2) what I can do to extrude a hole?




Best Answers

  • bruce_williams
    bruce_williams Member, Developers Posts: 842 EDU
    Answer ✓
    You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

    And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.
    www.accuratepattern.com
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    Answer ✓
    bruce_williams said:
    You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

    And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.
    I think you nailed it there. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    Answer ✓
    @hank_debey I use a tool called Peek. Unfortunately, it's only available on GNU/Linux as far as I know. My main machine is a System76 Lemur Pro running Pop!_OS, so Peek is great for my use case, but I don't think there's a Windows or macOS version. It can record gifs, webms, mp4s, and apngs. Quick video showing how it works:
    https://youtu.be/jcwMvY944c8
    For longer screen recordings, ones needing higher framerates or resolutions, or ones that need sound/a voiceover, I use OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software Studio): https://obsproject.com/
    It's free and open-source, and runs well on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but doesn't have a gif output (at least I can't find one), so you would have to run it through a converter if you want a gif. It's a very powerful and popular program, but might be overkill for a quick tutorial gif.
    Hope this helped!
    Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev
    @alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.

Answers

  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    Looks like some sort of graphics error. What browser are you using? Is it up to date?
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    @hank_debey can you share a public link to your document?
    Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev
    @alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.
  • bruce_williams
    bruce_williams Member, Developers Posts: 842 EDU
    Answer ✓
    You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

    And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.
    www.accuratepattern.com
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,099 image
    Answer ✓
    bruce_williams said:
    You may have two parts there.  Try hiding the orange part.

    And sharing public doc as @alnis_smidchens mentioned is best for getting specific answers.
    I think you nailed it there. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • hank_debey
    hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    That was qucik. Here is the link to the document. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/662cdddd47db3356a46031cb/w/5328a671f81c386727127ab1/e/b875b98ff3b764a9ef3112ce 

    I hope that is sufficient. I didn't see any setting to change but if there is something else I need to do to share it, let me know.


  • hank_debey
    hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    I am using a Chromebook so the browser is Chrome and a Chrome OS update happened a few days ago. 

    One of the things I wondered about was a part inside of a part. I will look again but I don't think so. This part was the sixth part I made in the design process so I was still in the early part of learning OnShape.
  • hank_debey
    hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    Yes, it was a part inside of a part. I thought I had checked that but I checked again and voila, I am back on the road again. Thank you.
  • hank_debey
    hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    alnis_smidchens the animated gif you sent was very helpful. How did you make it?
  • alnis
    alnis Member, Developers Posts: 453 EDU
    Answer ✓
    @hank_debey I use a tool called Peek. Unfortunately, it's only available on GNU/Linux as far as I know. My main machine is a System76 Lemur Pro running Pop!_OS, so Peek is great for my use case, but I don't think there's a Windows or macOS version. It can record gifs, webms, mp4s, and apngs. Quick video showing how it works:
    https://youtu.be/jcwMvY944c8
    For longer screen recordings, ones needing higher framerates or resolutions, or ones that need sound/a voiceover, I use OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software Studio): https://obsproject.com/
    It's free and open-source, and runs well on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but doesn't have a gif output (at least I can't find one), so you would have to run it through a converter if you want a gif. It's a very powerful and popular program, but might be overkill for a quick tutorial gif.
    Hope this helped!
    Get in touch: contact@alnis.dev | My personal site: https://alnis.dev
    @alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.
  • hank_debey
    hank_debey Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    Thanks for this great information. In our workshop and training center, we use Chromebooks, hence our appreciation for OnShape. We do have one Chromebook with Ubuntu installed so I will use it to look into Peek. 

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